The Effect of Emotional-Visual Stimuli on Memory in a Nonclinical OCD Behavior Sample

Participants low and high on contamination-based OCD behaviors completed a recall memory task of disgusting, fear-eliciting, and neutral images. While we found a significant positive relationship between contamination-based OCD behavior and disgust sensitivity, contamination-based OCD groups did not differ in memory of visual-emotional stimuli or in memory confidence.