title: Inflated responsibility and perseverative checking: the effect of negative mood.
abstract: This article reports the results of 2 experiments designed to test predictions from the mood-as-input hypothesis on the role of inflated responsibility in perseverative checking. Through the use of an analog checking task in both experiments, the authors showed that perseveration, as indicated by a range of measures relevant to compulsive checking, was affected by a combination of the level of inflated responsibility and the valency of mood at the outset of checking. In particular, inflated responsibility significantly facilitated checking perseveration only in the context of a negative mood and was not a sufficient condition for checking perseveration to occur. These effects of the various configurations of inflated responsibility and mood valency are predicted by the mood-as-input hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Benie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: Graham C L
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Davey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012941:Social Responsibility; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires