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    "title": "Towards a computational account of egodystonia",
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    "abstract": "Egodystonia refers to thoughts and behaviors that conflict with one's values or beliefs, which is often observed in psychiatric conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While prior work has demonstrated dissociations between beliefs and actions (Vaghi et al., 2017, 2019), we lack a computational framework to explain the mechanisms underlying this mismatch. In a novel experiment combining behavior and subjective report, we induced egodystonic feelings in a healthy population with a range of obsessive-compulsive traits. Individuals scoring higher on the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (OCI-R) reported greater egodystonic experiences. Egodystonicity was not influenced by reward availability or action rate, but was driven by perceived consequences of inaction, as captured by a computational model of the task. This study provides the first experimental evidence of induced egodystonia and offers a foundation for theoretical advances in understanding this phenomenon.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Action; Cognitive architectures; Emotion; Computational Modeling; Survey"
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        {
            "first_name": "Lucy",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lai",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Tobias",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hauser",
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            "institution": "University of TŸbingen",
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            "first_name": "Quentin",
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            "last_name": "Huys",
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            "institution": "University College London",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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