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Belief Inflexibility and Cognitive Biases in Anorexia Nervosa-The Role of the Bias against Disconfirmatory Evidence and Its Clinical and Neuropsychological Correlates

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.3390/jcm12051746

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anorexia nervosa; cognitive bias; bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE); bias against confirmatory evidence (BACE); liberal acceptance; neuropsychology

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The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) to question their initial impressions and integrate new information. The study found that AN patients were more likely to disconfirm their previous judgments compared to healthy individuals, particularly those with a binge-eating/purging subtype. Abstract thinking skills and cognitive flexibility were positively correlated with cognitive bias in both patients and controls. This research is important for understanding the complexity of AN.
The aim of this study was to explore, in a sample of patients with a diagnosis of AN, the ability to question their first impression and, in particular, the willingness to integrate their prior ideas and thoughts with additional progressive incoming information. A total of 45 healthy women and 103 patients with a diagnosis of AN, consecutively admitted to the Eating Disorder Padova Hospital-University Unit, underwent a broad clinical and neuropsychological assessment. All participants were administered the Bias Against Disconfirmatory Evidence (BADE) task, which specifically investigates belief integration cognitive bias. Acute AN patients showed a significantly greater bias toward disconfirming their previous judgment, in comparison to healthy women (BADE score, respectively, 2.5 +/- 2.0 vs. 3.3 +/- 1.6; Mann-Whitney test, p = 0.012). A binge-eating/purging subtype of AN individuals, compared to restrictive AN patients and controls, showed greater disconfirmatory bias and also a significant propensity to uncritically accept implausible interpretations (BADE score, respectively, 1.55 +/- 1.6 and 2.70 +/- 1.97 vs. 3.33 +/- 1.63; Kruskal-Wallis test, p = 0.002 and liberal acceptance score, respectively, 1.32 +/- 0.93 and 0.92 +/- 1.21 vs. 0.98 +/- 0.75; Kruskal-Wallis test p = 0.03). Abstract thinking skills and cognitive flexibility, as well as high central coherence, are neuropsychological aspects positively correlated with cognitive bias, in both patients and controls. Research into belief integration bias in AN population could enable us to shed light on hidden dimensional aspects, facilitating a better understanding of the psychopathology of a disorder that is so complex and difficult to treat.

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