“Beliefs about overimportance of thoughts and thought control are more frequent in highly religious people and mediate the observed association between religiosity and OCD. Thought-action fusion overlaps with magical thinking and is associated with religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and positive schizotypy. most likely, thought-action fusion plays a significant role in the etiology of autogenous obsessions.” MindReligionSocietyCohesionOcdEvolutionary PsychopathologyEvolutionary Psychology Change Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach