Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses
Hyper-emotion theory states that psychological disorders are conditions in which individuals experience emotions that are appropriate to the situation but inappropriate in their intensity. When these individuals experience such an emotion, they are inevitably compelled to reason about its cause. The...
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| description | Hyper-emotion theory states that psychological disorders are conditions in which individuals experience emotions that are appropriate to the situation but inappropriate in their intensity. When these individuals experience such an emotion, they are inevitably compelled to reason about its cause. They therefore develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular hyper-emotion they experience. In anxiety disorders (e.g., panic attack, social phobia), the perception of a disorder-related threat leads to hyper-anxiety; here, individuals’ reasoning is corroboratory, adducing evidence that confirms the risk (corroboratory strategy). In obsessive-compulsive disorders, the threat of having acted in an irresponsible way leads to both hyper-anxiety and guilt; here, individuals’ reasoning is refutatory, adducing only evidence disconfirming the risk of being guilty (refutatory strategy). We report three empirical studies corroborating these hypotheses. They demonstrate that patients themselves recognize the two strategies and spontaneously use them in therapeutic sessions and in evaluating scenarios in an experiment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2056f7f99d794e7286ee7e55cb0ce4832022-12-22T01:13:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-10-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02335478815Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological IllnessesAmelia Gangemi0Katia Tenore1Francesco Mancini2Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, University of Messina, Messina, ItalyScuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Rome, ItalyScuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Rome, ItalyHyper-emotion theory states that psychological disorders are conditions in which individuals experience emotions that are appropriate to the situation but inappropriate in their intensity. When these individuals experience such an emotion, they are inevitably compelled to reason about its cause. They therefore develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular hyper-emotion they experience. In anxiety disorders (e.g., panic attack, social phobia), the perception of a disorder-related threat leads to hyper-anxiety; here, individuals’ reasoning is corroboratory, adducing evidence that confirms the risk (corroboratory strategy). In obsessive-compulsive disorders, the threat of having acted in an irresponsible way leads to both hyper-anxiety and guilt; here, individuals’ reasoning is refutatory, adducing only evidence disconfirming the risk of being guilty (refutatory strategy). We report three empirical studies corroborating these hypotheses. They demonstrate that patients themselves recognize the two strategies and spontaneously use them in therapeutic sessions and in evaluating scenarios in an experiment.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02335/fullhyper-emotion theoryemotionsreasoninganxiety disordersobsessive-compulsive disorderscorroboratory strategy |
| spellingShingle | Amelia Gangemi Katia Tenore Francesco Mancini Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses Frontiers in Psychology hyper-emotion theory emotions reasoning anxiety disorders obsessive-compulsive disorders corroboratory strategy |
| title | Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses |
| title_full | Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses |
| title_fullStr | Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses |
| title_short | Two Reasoning Strategies in Patients With Psychological Illnesses |
| title_sort | two reasoning strategies in patients with psychological illnesses |
| topic | hyper-emotion theory emotions reasoning anxiety disorders obsessive-compulsive disorders corroboratory strategy |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02335/full |
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