McKenna et al

• Researched cognitive distortions by interviewing women with anorexia and comparing their thought processes with a control group of women the same age,
• They found that anorexic patients overestimated their body size and judged their ideal weight to be much lower than the control group. They also judged their ideal weight to be much lower than the control group. they also although their body size would increase directly after eating a sugary snack.
• This suggests the cognitive distortions are apparent in the thought processes of anorexic individuals, increasing the validity, of the cognitive theory