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Title: Approach-avoidance, attentional and evaluation biases in hair pulling disorder and their relationship with symptom severity
Author(s): Maas, J. ; Keijsers, G.P.J. ; Rinck, M. ; Becker, E.S.
Publication year: 2018
Source: Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 30, iss. 7, (2018), pp. 743-753
Number of Pages: 11 p.
ISSN: 2044-592X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1503278
Publication type: Article / Letter to editor

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Subject: Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment
Organization: SW OW PsKI [owi]
SW OZ BSI KLP
Journal title:
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Volume: vol. 30
Issue: iss. 7
Page start: p. 743
Page end: p. 753
Abstract:
The present study examined approach-avoidance, attentional and evaluation biases in Hair Pulling Disorder (HPD). Although none of the tasks showed indications of biased action tendencies in response to hair pulling-related pictures, or biased attention for hair pulling-related words, we found that patients were slower to react to hair pulling-related stimuli than to neutral stimuli. This slowing down may indicate that patients are ambivalent towards hair pulling. This 'ambivalence' positively correlated with HPD symptom severity, but only on one of the three severity measures we assessed. Concerning action tendencies towards hair pulling-related words, patients were, however, faster to react to hair pulling-related words when compared to words related to resisting hair pulling. Future research is needed to disentangle this ambivalent response pattern in HPD.
Languages used: English (eng)

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