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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with difficulties in social comparison and self-evaluation.
  • Understanding the cognitive underpinnings of EDs is crucial for developing effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of social rank cues and implicit self-concept in individuals with EDs.
  • To compare these cognitive processes between individuals with EDs, healthy controls (HCs), and individuals recovered from EDs (RECs).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized behavioral tasks including an attentional bias task with social rank cues and an implicit self-evaluation task.
  • Administered self-report measures assessing social comparison, submissive behavior, and shame.
  • Included 50 HCs, 46 individuals with EDs, and 22 RECs.

Main Results:

  • Individuals with EDs demonstrated vigilance towards social rank stimuli and lower implicit positive self-evaluation compared to HCs.
  • Self-report data indicated higher levels of unfavorable social comparison, submissive behaviors, and shame in individuals with EDs.
  • RECs displayed an intermediate cognitive profile between individuals with EDs and HCs.

Conclusions:

  • EDs are characterized by heightened sensitivity to social rank cues and automatic-level self-evaluation impairments.
  • Some cognitive biases related to social comparison and self-evaluation persist in individuals after ED recovery.
  • Interventions targeting social threat sensitivity and negative self/other biases may benefit ED treatment.