%0 Journal Article
%T The effect of task difficulty on decision
%A Agust¨ªn Mart¨ªn-Rodr¨ªguez
%A Estrella Serrano-Guerrero
%A Juan Francisco Rodr¨ªguez-Testal
%A Miguel Ruiz-Veguilla
%J Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
%@ 2043-8087
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2043808718787420
%X The aim was to determine whether there are differences between groups in jumping to conclusions and the number of beads required to make a decision based on task difficulty. An assessment was made of 19 patients with non-affective psychosis, 19 with obsessive¨Ccompulsive disorder (OCD), and 19 healthy controls. The Beads Task scale was used in its two versions. Patients with non-affective psychosis jumped to conclusions. There was significant interaction between group and task difficulty. Increased difficulty of the task did not affect the number of beads patients with non-affective psychosis or OCD needed to make their decision. However, healthy controls needed to see more beads before they could make a decision in the hard test than in the easy one. Patients with non-affective psychosis jump to conclusions, but neither this group nor the OCD patients benefit from the changes in task difficulty when making their decisions
%K Decision-making
%K jumping to conclusions
%K non-affective psychosis
%K obsessive¨Ccompulsive disorder
%K task difficulty
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2043808718787420