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The involvement of platforms like Robinhood also called to mind broader concerns about how many phone apps are designed in a way that reinforces people’s compulsivity.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2021

I think that there is a way in which a lot of my old obsessions and Compulsivity is just kind of sublimated into obsessions and compulsivity is around writing, you know.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2018

I am terrified that her daughter’s nascent compulsivity will blossom into the shame and loneliness her otherwise very sociable mother fosters.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2017

One radical and particularly controversial proposal was to scrap half of the existing ten conditions relating to personality disorder and introduce a series of cross-cutting dimensions to measure patients against, such as degree of compulsivity.

From Nature • Apr. 24, 2013

"Now, it's moving from those traits to addiction and compulsivity, which is when your behaviors are patterns," Littlefield said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2011