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Embodying Hot Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders

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The effectiveness of current treatments of emotional disorders is considered as disappointing. Low response rates, high attrition, and relapse are major problems of both medication and psychological treatments for emotional disorders. Translational science has been proposed as a solution for improving existent psychological treatments. In this chapter, I suggest that the embodied simulation model of cognition is a viable framework for translating findings from basic affective and cognitive neuroscience into influential cognitive models of vulnerability to emotional disorders. This chapter further presents an overview of the book. It lays out a description of embodied non-distorted hot cognition (Chap. 2), distorted hot cognition (Chap. 3), dynamic development of embodied cognitive vulnerability based on stress-related neuroadaptations (Chap. 4), embodied rigid appraisals as core vulnerability to emotional disorders (Chap. 5), a model of embodied rigid appraisals (Chap. 6) and applications to the conceptualization and the treatment of hot cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders.

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    Some scholars will argue that recently A.T. Beck integrated the biology into his recent generic model. I do agree that Beck admitted since 2008 that biology might be important for distortions of cognition (Beck 2008). Yet in the generic model (Beck and Haigh 2014), Beck suggested that biological propensities to attend to aversive information result in accumulation of negative knowledge structures. Then, when activated, these knowledge structures impact emotional and information processing. This is still an amodal model of cognition. There are not the differences in our brain that result in distorted cognition but the differences in our negative knowledge structures.

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Tiba, A. (2020). Embodying Hot Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. In: Embodied Hot Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders​. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53989-4_1

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