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Intrusive cognitions about past events are important determinants of overgeneral recall as they consume working memory capacity [ 40].
It is thus important to distinguish between measures which reflect controlled, deliberate processes and those which assess involuntary, intrusive cognitions.
In the context of intrusive cognitions, this might have been the case with studies using working memory capacity (WMC) which is a rather general index of executive control.
Our results suggest that disgust propensity may be one factor that predicts recurring intrusive cognitions after an event involving witnessing injury or bodily harm.
In the present study, it is possible that individuals with higher disgust propensity attempted to suppress thoughts about the film, and subsequently experienced a greater number of intrusive cognitions about it.
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The cognitive model of OCD suggests that the intrusive cognition serves for the OCD patients as an indication that they are responsible for harm and its prevention [6].
Consequently, patients with OCD experience anxiety discomfort (egodystonic character of intrusive cognition) and are engaged in anxiety-neutralizing compulsive behaviours [4].
There are some analogue studies that have investigated the relationship between WMC and stressor-related intrusive cognition.
Perhaps the associations between performance on this measure and intrusive cognition were due to unforeseen task-specific factors rather than the higher-level executive ability of resistance to PI.
Using a different paradigm (CVLT) and an independent sample, our conceptual replication provides more consistent evidence for the role of a specific executive ability in the prediction of intrusive cognition.
The view of depression as sustained by intrusive negative cognitions has had particular application in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which aims to challenge and neutralize them through techniques such as cognitive restructuring.
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