Individuals with illness anxiety disorder tend to actively seek out and accept information that agreed with their own view of their medical state,but ignore or reject arguments against their own beliefs.Smeets,de Jong & Mayer (2000)proposed that individuals exhibiting such behaviour possessed:

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Smeets, de Jong, and Mayer (2000) proposed that individuals who actively seek out information that confirms their own beliefs about their health, while ignoring or rejecting contrary evidence, exhibit a reasoning bias. This is because they process information in a way that is biased towards confirming their pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses, rather than objectively evaluating all available information.

Individuals with Illness Anxiety Disorder Tend to Actively Seek Out