Actually, no you didn't misread. I did. > Participants are given two vivid examples of each distortion [...] and then report how frequently they engage in ea

Actually, no you didn't misread. I did. > Participants are given two vivid examples of each distortion [...] and then report how frequently they engage in each type of thinking. > For example, emotional reasoning is illustrated with the following examples: That sure sounds like participants faced those examples somewhere.