Title: Cognitive Distortions: 11 Deep Errors in Thinking | Cognition Today
Headings: Cognitive Distortions: 11 Deep Errors in Thinking
Cognitive Distortions: 11 Deep Errors in Thinking
Contents
What are Cognitive Distortions?
List of Cognitive distortions w/ examples
Quick summary
1. All-or-None Thinking
2. Mental Filtering (aka Selective Abstraction)
3. Overgeneralization
4. Disqualifying the Positive
5. Jumping to Conclusions (aka Arbitrary Inference)
6. Magnification (catastrophizing) and Minimizing
7. Emotional Reasoning
8. Should Statements
9. Labeling and Mislabeling
10. Personalization and Blame
11. Thought-Action Fusion
How to nullify cognitive distortions?
Differences & Similarities between cognitive distortions & cognitive biases
Aditya Shukla
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Content: Personalization and Blame
11. Thought-Action Fusion
How to nullify cognitive distortions? Differences & Similarities between cognitive distortions & cognitive biases
What are Cognitive Distortions? Cognitive distortions, or distorted thinking patterns, are rigid errors in thinking that grossly misinterpret events & experiences, usually in harmful or negative ways. These patterns of thinking are full of assumptions, errors, incorrect logic, and real-world evidence does not back them up. In a way, cognitive distortions are far more biased thoughts than having different perspectives. Cognitive distortions are recognizable and predictable errors in thinking that sustain mental health issues and disrupt decision-making & problem-solving. Researchers argue that cognitive distortions are thoughts that would’ve been adaptive in a pre-civilization threatening situation like running away from predators. Our brains might’ve prioritized quick, useful thinking instead of slow, logical thinking because slow/bad decisions could mean death. However, we are no longer in a hunter-gatherer society, but those thought templates remain a part of our biology – just without the appropriate context.