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      Susceptibility to cognitive distortions: the role of eating pathology

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          Abstract

          Background

          Thought-Shape Fusion (TSF) and Thought-Action Fusion (TAF) are cognitive distortions that are associated with eating and obsessional pathology respectively. Both involve the underlying belief that mere thoughts and mental images can lead to negative outcomes. TSF involves the belief that food-related thoughts lead to weight gain, body dissatisfaction, and perceptions of moral wrong-doing. TAF is more general, and involves the belief that merely thinking about a negative event (e.g., a loved one getting into a car accident) can make this event more likely to happen, and leads to perceptions of moral wrong-doing. However, the shared susceptibility across related cognitive distortions—TAF and TSF—has not yet been studied.

          Method

          The effects of TSF and TAF inductions in women with an eating disorder ( n = 21) and a group of healthy control women with no history of an eating disorder ( n = 23) were measured. A repeated-measures design was employed, with all participants exposed to a TSF, TAF and neutral induction during three separate experimental sessions. Participants’ cognitive and behavioral responses were assessed.

          Results

          Individuals with eating disorders were more susceptible to TSF and TAF than were control participants, demonstrating more neutralization behavior after TSF and TAF inductions (i.e., actions to try to reduce the negative effects of the induction), and reporting higher levels of trait TAF and TSF than did controls.

          Conclusions

          Individuals with eating disorders are particularly susceptible to both TAF and TSF. Clinical implications of these findings will be discussed.

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Jennifer.coelho@cw.bc.ca
                o.ouellet-courtois@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl
                christine.purdon@uwaterloo.ca
                Howard.Steiger@douglas.mcgill.ca
                Journal
                J Eat Disord
                J Eat Disord
                Journal of Eating Disorders
                BioMed Central (London )
                2050-2974
                4 September 2015
                4 September 2015
                2015
                : 3
                : 31
                Affiliations
                [ ]Eating Disorders Program, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Canada
                [ ]Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
                [ ]Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
                [ ]Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
                Article
                68
                10.1186/s40337-015-0068-9
                4558929
                c7e737cb-9fcb-4be6-99b9-5452c5cecf40
                © Coelho et al. 2015

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

                History
                : 12 June 2015
                : 25 August 2015
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                thought-shape fusion,thought-action fusion,cognitive distortion,eating disorders

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