Improving treatment delivery will involve working with clinicians' levels of anxiety, clarifying the lack of benefit of pre-therapy motivational enhancement work, and reminding clinicians that the therapeutic alliance is enhanced by behavioral change in CBT-ED, rather than the other way around.

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This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Highlights  Patients with schizophrenia exhibit sex differences in illness characteristics  We investigated sex differences in delusion-associated cognitive biases  To this purpose, we used data on cognitive biases from two previous studies  We found no sex differences in cognitive biases in patients / healthy controls  Larger sample sizes are needed to exclude sex differences of a small effect size

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