ABSTRACT
Different people have different ways of thinking that we call 'thinking styles'. A person's thinking style tends to go with their personality traits and affect the way they behave or respond to situations (action tendencies). Others like to concentrate on one thing at a time, are slower to integrate new information and find it disruptive or overwhelming if they are interrupted or if they have to switch between tasks. These sorts of people may be very good at finishing things or 'seeing something through, no matter what'. These people may find new or changing situations hard. The author call the two core processes thinking styles, and research suggests that people naturally vary in their proneness towards these ways of being. Research within our team has shown that many people with anorexia tend to show a particular profile of thinking styles.
