“…As O/C symptoms are more likely to relate to a feared outcome and be motivated by a goal of reducing anxiety, they are more closely tied to traditional cognitive models of OCD and thus more closely resemble anxiety disorders (Coles, Pietrefesa et al, ; Starcevic & Brakoulias, ; Summerfeldt et al., ). There is evidence suggesting that anxiety influences decision‐making (Engelmann, Meyer, Fehr, & Ruff, ; Hartley & Phelps, ; Luhmann, Ishida, & Hajcak, ; Miu, Heilman, & Houser, ; Raghunathan & Pham, ), and is impaired in anxiety disorders (Teng et al., ; Wölk, Sütterlin, Koch, Vögele, & Schulz, ). Therefore, when taken into context of existing literature, the current results concerning decision‐making may suggest that the neural processes underlying O/C symptoms are similar to those seen in anxiety disorders.…”