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Mean threat ratings across the different variations of the situations for individuals with an eating disorder (ED) and healthy controls (HCs). Note. SB = safety behavior; blue solid line: eating disorder group and dangerous situation; blue dashed line: eating disorder group and safe situation; red solid line: healthy controls and dangerous situation; red dashed line: healthy controls and safe situation.
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When evaluating ambiguous situations, humans sometimes use their behavior as a source of information (behavior-as-information effect) and interpret safety behaviors as evidence for danger. Accordingly, we hypothesized that eating disorder safety behaviors (restrictive eating, body checking, etc.) might aggravate fear and anxiety in individuals with...
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... < 0.001). The 'behavior-as-information' effect was smaller in 'dangerous' situations (see Figure 2); safety behavior x presence of danger (F (1,2468) . In sum, the danger information included in the situations affected the strength of the 'behavior-as-information' effect: safety behaviors increased participants' threat perception more strongly in safe situations compared with dangerous situations. ...
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... this reduction in ratings was stronger in safe than in dangerous situations. Detailed results for 'pleasantness' and 'want for experience' ratings are presented in Supplementary Material S2. Figure 2. Mean threat ratings across the different variations of the situaons for individuals with an eating disorder (ED) and healthy controls (HCs). ...
