Intrusive thoughts are a symptom of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which are thoughts that become obsessions when they are catastrophized by the individual experiencing them and are distressing to the individual (Rachman, 1997). According to the cognitive model of OCD, intrusive thoughts occur on a continuum affecting both clinical and non-clinical populations (Rachman & De Silva, 1978). Within intrusive thoughts are commonly occurring content thoughts that can have sexual, blasphemous, or violent themes (Corcoran & Woody, 2008; Levine & Warman, 2016). At this time, no studies have been conducted analyzing the appraisal of an intrusive thought of another individual vs. acting out the behavior of the thought while comparing OC tendencies. This study recruited 271 participants through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants OC levels were measured using the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R). Participants were randomly assigned to either be shown vignettes describing three taboo thoughts (sexual, violent, blasphemous thoughts group) or assigned vignettes describing the three taboo thoughts as actions (action group). Participants were asked to complete the Social Distance Scale (SDS) about the targets they read about after they read each vignette (Link, Cullen, Frank, & Wozniak, 1987). Regression analyses were conducted with thought vs. action as the predictor, OC tendencies as the moderator, and social distance as the outcome for each content type. Simple slopes analyses were conducted where moderation was found to be significant. Across all three content types, participants desired more social distance from targets who acted on thoughts compared to targets who exclusively had thoughts, but the difference was more pronounced for low and average OC participants compared to high OC participants. OC level was found to be moderator for thought vs. action and social distance across all three content types. Unexpectedly, OC level was not a significant predictor of social distance for the blasphemous content type.