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We suggest that neutralisation is likely to be exacerbated when processing material in a conceptual-evaluative way (i.e., during analytical self-focus) relative to an experiential mode.
Processing emotional material in an experiential mode may thus weaken the connection between thoughts about eating and weight gain or neutralisation.
This account predicts that shifting individuals away from an analytical into an experiential mode of processing will interrupt ruminative thinking and provide an opportunity for the direct processing and integration of bodily and emotional cues that were previously avoided.
One would expect potentially beneficial effects of distraction tasks to be short-lived and that individuals would revert to habitual, maladaptive processing styles, whereas an experiential mode may provide a beneficial form of self-focus.
The aim of this experiment was to explore the hypothesis that analytical self-focus in patients with EDs would have more detrimental effects on emotional processing than an experiential mode of self-focus.
In sum, Park et al.'s (in press) account predicts that an analytical mode of processing contributes to the maintenance of maladaptive cognitions, feelings and behaviours in EDs, whereas encouraging an experiential mode may allow for attenuation of such concerns by facilitating more effective emotional processing.
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Cognitive inflexibility may influence the degree to which individuals are able to shift into an experiential processing mode.
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