TABLE 5.

Frequencies of protocols reflecting a refutatory reasoning strategy and those reflecting a corroboratory strategy in obsessive and anxious patients trying to refute the outcome that the protagonist in the story might be guilty in Experiment 3.

	Story eliciting		Story describing
	protagonist’s guilt		another’s guilt
	Refutatory	Corroboratory	Refutatory	Corroboratory
	strategy	strategy	strategy	strategy
Obsessive patients	12	1	2	11
(N = 13)
Anxious patients	4	7	1	10
(N = 11)