TY - JOUR
T1 - Who sees trees before forest?
T2 - The obsessive-compulsive style of visual attention
AU - Yovel, Iftah
AU - Revelle, William
AU - Mineka, Susan
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - It has been suggested that individuals with obsessive-compulsive personalities tend to focus on small local details in their surroundings, whereas histrionic individuals are characterized by more global information processing. Using the global-local hierarchical-letters paradigm, we were able to provide support for the first but not the second hypothesis. Measures related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder were associated with excessive visual attention to small details of the hierarchical letters. Specifically, the obsessive-compulsive cognitive style was associated with local interference, which reflects the effects of distraction by to-be-ignored small details on identification of global information.
AB - It has been suggested that individuals with obsessive-compulsive personalities tend to focus on small local details in their surroundings, whereas histrionic individuals are characterized by more global information processing. Using the global-local hierarchical-letters paradigm, we were able to provide support for the first but not the second hypothesis. Measures related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder were associated with excessive visual attention to small details of the hierarchical letters. Specifically, the obsessive-compulsive cognitive style was associated with local interference, which reflects the effects of distraction by to-be-ignored small details on identification of global information.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00792.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00792.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 15686578
AN - SCOPUS:14544292421
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 16
SP - 123
EP - 129
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 2
ER -