Mental contamination (MC) describes subjective internal feelings of ‘dirtiness’, which are experienced in the absence of direct physical contact/contaminants. There is evidence of a link between MC in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and the experience of past betrayals. However, it has also been noted that ‘perpetrators’ also experience MC. We aimed to replicate the previous finding of specificity of OCD for sensitivity to being betrayed by comparing with those suffering from depression, and to extend this by evaluating whether people with high MC OCD are also relatively more sensitive to the idea that they might betray others compared to those with low levels of MC OCD.

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在强迫症和抑郁症中对被背叛和背叛他人的敏感性

精神污染 (MC) 描述了在没有直接身体接触/污染物的情况下的主观内部感觉“肮脏”。有证据表明强迫症 (OCD) 中的 MC 与过去背叛的经历之间存在联系。然而，也有人指出，“犯罪者”也经历过 MC。我们旨在通过与患有抑郁症的人进行比较来复制先前关于强迫症特异性对被背叛的敏感性的发现，并通过评估患有高 MC 强迫症的人是否也对他们可能背叛他人的想法相对更敏感来扩展这一点。 MC强迫症水平低的人。