Much like the behavior-focused and natural reward strategies, constructive thought strategies also demonstrate potential for improving self-regulatory effectiveness. For example, the strategy of evaluating and challenging dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions may have a positive effect on self-regulatory feedback processes. Individuals often distort feedback to be closer to what they expect to see or want to see. Mental distortions such as mind reading, extreme thinking, overgeneralization and mental filters lead to feedback distortion and ultimately, impaired self-regulatory processes. By confronting the beliefs and assumptions that lead to distortion and replacing them with more realistic and less dysfunctional ones, feedback may become less distorted and self-regulation more effective.