These components are expected to be consistent with each other and across multiple situations and contexts (Kring, 2008). The lack of such cohesion, which has been defined as emotional disturbance, has been observed in numerous mental disorders. Examples of emotional disorders include emotional excesses (e.g. excessive fear in social phobias), emotional deficits (e.g. lack of empathy in narcissistic personality disorder), social-emotional problems (e.g. lack of emotional reciprocity in autism), and regulation (e.g. uncontrollable anger in borderline personality disorders) (Kring, 2008). Adoption of a transdiagnostic approach in psychopathology focusing on emotional disturbances common to different disorders has been suggested and is expected to provide a number of advantages (Kring, 2008). First, examining common emotional processes at the symptom level may offer an explanation for the high levels of comorbidity in widely accepted diagnostic categories and help reorganize the current diagnostic system; second, a transdiagnostic approach can provide evidence for the causal or maintenance function of different emotion-related processes in mental disorders; and, thirdly, such an approach could guide the development of therapeutic practices aimed at changing emotional processes (Kring,