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Grounded procedures of separation in clinical psychology: what's to be expected?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2021

Anke Haberkamp  and
Thomas Schmidt Open the ORCID record for Thomas Schmidt [Opens in a new window]
Anke Haberkamp
Affiliation:
Philipps-University Marburg, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, D-35032 Marburg, Germany Anke.Haberkamp@staff.uni-marburg.de https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb04/team-rief/team/anke-haberkamp
Thomas Schmidt
Affiliation:
Technische Universität, Kaiserslautern, Department of Social Sciences, Experimental Psychology Unit, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas.Schmidt@sowi.uni-kl.de https://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/psychologie/mitglieder/prof-dr-thomas-schmidt/
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Abstract

The hypothesis of grounded procedures of separation predicts accentuated effects in individuals with psychiatric disorders, for example, obsessive-compulsive disorders with washing compulsion. This could provide a vantage point for understanding cognitive processes related to specific disorders. However, fully exploring it requires updated experimental designs, including extensive control conditions, exclusion of alternative explanations, internal replications, and parametric variation to strengthen internal validity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e9
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