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    Cognitive Distortions

    Cognitive Distortions
    Cognitive Distortions

    Everybody has some cognitive distortions. However there are two kinds of people who suffer much greater from cognitive distortions: people with mental disorders and people who debate politics.

    For the sakes of honesty and good faith, please refer yourself or other forum members to this thread while debating or discussing if you recognize a cognitive distortion. This is not a list of rules or forum regulations. Also, this list is not absolute. This is simply an organized list of common fouls people make while debating one another on the forum.


    The most common cognitive distortions are:

    1. All or nothing thinking: This involves seeing things in black and white categories, not seeing things in between categories.
    2. Over-generalization: This involves seeing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
    3. Mental filter: When an individual picks out a single negative detail and dwells on this, much like drops of ink that discolor the entire pool of water.
    4. Disqualifying the positive: When an individual rejects positive experiences by negating them or insisting they don't count for one reason or another. This enables the individual to maintain a negative belief system that is contradicted by positive everyday experiences. The other side of the "coin" is focusing on the negative.
    5. Jumping to conclusions: When a person makes a negative interpretation, even though there are no definite facts that would support the conclusion. For example, "mind reading" - arbitrarily concluding that someone is reacting negatively to you, or to an individual, when this has not been checked out.
    6. Catastrophizing/minimizing: In catastrophizing, a person exaggerates the importance of things such as one minor mistake. In minimizing, a person inappropriately shrinks things until they appear very inconsequential. For example, minimizing a person's or group's desirable qualities.
    7. Emotional reasoning: When an individual assumes that negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are just because they feel it.
    8. Should statements: When a person tries to motivate an individual with shoulds and shouldn'ts, and the implied consequence of not following through is guilt. When an individual directs should statements to another person, it is often the result of anger, frustration, and resentment.
    9. Labeling and mislabeling: This can be thought of as an extreme form of over-generalization. Instead of describing a mistake an individual may make, they would attach a negative label to that person. For example, instead of a person stating "that is not correct", they may say "you're an idiot."
    10. Personalization: This is when an individual sees a critical comment as a deliberate attack on themselves, or others, or their ideals.
    11. Victimization: This involves always seeing oneself, another person, or a group as the victim of circumstances and being powerless to do anything to change.
    12. Entitlement: This is seeing the world revolving around oneself, another person or group. One deserves to have it their way. The world/society owes them what they want.
    13. Fallacy of fairness: We feel resentful because we think we know what is fair, but other people won’t agree with us. As our parents tell us when we’re growing up and something doesn’t go our way, “Life isn’t always fair.” People who go through life applying a measuring ruler against every situation judging its “fairness” will often feel badly and negative because of it. Because life isn’t “fair” — things will not always work out in your favor, even when you think they should.
    14. Always being right: We are continually on trial to prove that our opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and we will go to any length to demonstrate our rightness. For example, “I don’t care how badly arguing with me makes you feel, I’m going to win this argument no matter what because I’m right.” Being right often is more important than the feelings of others around a person who engages in this cognitive distortion, even loved ones.
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    This list of 15 Common Cognitive Distortions includes

    ...8. Fallacy of Fairness.

    We feel resentful because we think we know what is fair, but other people won’t agree with us. As our parents tell us when we’re growing up and something doesn’t go our way, “Life isn’t always fair.” People who go through life applying a measuring ruler against every situation judging its “fairness” will often feel badly and negative because of it. Because life isn’t “fair” — things will not always work out in your favor, even when you think they should.

    ...14. Always Being Right.

    We are continually on trial to prove that our opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and we will go to any length to demonstrate our rightness. For example, “I don’t care how badly arguing with me makes you feel, I’m going to win this argument no matter what because I’m right.” Being right often is more important than the feelings of others around a person who engages in this cognitive distortion, even loved ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    This list of 15 Common Cognitive Distortions includes
    I'll copy-paste add them to the list. Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules or violating copyrights...
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    Quote Originally Posted by spunkloaf View Post
    Cognitive Distortions
    Cognitive Distortions

    Everybody has some cognitive distortions. However there are two kinds of people who suffer much greater from cognitive distortions: people with mental disorders and people who debate politics.

    For the sakes of honesty and good faith, please refer yourself or other forum members to this thread while debating or discussing if you recognize a cognitive distortion. This is not a list of rules or forum regulations. Also, this list is not absolute. This is simply an organized list of common fouls people make while debating one another on the forum.


    The most common cognitive distortions are:

    1. All or nothing thinking: This involves seeing things in black and white categories, not seeing things in between categories.
    2. Over-generalization: This involves seeing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
    3. Mental filter: When an individual picks out a single negative detail and dwells on this, much like drops of ink that discolor the entire pool of water.
    4. Disqualifying the positive: When an individual rejects positive experiences by negating them or insisting they don't count for one reason or another. This enables the individual to maintain a negative belief system that is contradicted by positive everyday experiences. The other side of the "coin" is focusing on the negative.
    5. Jumping to conclusions: When a person makes a negative interpretation, even though there are no definite facts that would support the conclusion. For example, "mind reading" - arbitrarily concluding that someone is reacting negatively to you, or to an individual, when this has not been checked out.
    6. Catastrophizing/minimizing: In catastrophizing, a person exaggerates the importance of things such as one minor mistake. In minimizing, a person inappropriately shrinks things until they appear very inconsequential. For example, minimizing a person's or group's desirable qualities.
    7. Emotional reasoning: When an individual assumes that negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are just because they feel it.
    8. Should statements: When a person tries to motivate an individual with shoulds and shouldn'ts, and the implied consequence of not following through is guilt. When an individual directs should statements to another person, it is often the result of anger, frustration, and resentment.
    9. Labeling and mislabeling: This can be thought of as an extreme form of over-generalization. Instead of describing a mistake an individual may make, they would attach a negative label to that person. For example, instead of a person stating "that is not correct", they may say "you're an idiot."
    10. Personalization: This is when an individual sees a critical comment as a deliberate attack on themselves, or others, or their ideals.
    11. Victimization: This involves always seeing oneself, another person, or a group as the victim of circumstances and being powerless to do anything to change.
    12. Entitlement: This is seeing the world revolving around oneself, another person or group. One deserves to have it their way. The world/society owes them what they want.
    Cant argue with any of it, actually its damn accurate. Some that dont want to do that get drawn into it eventually.

    It gets to be tit for tat and redundant
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    I tried to adapt the list that I have according to the online forum environment, because when I saw it I thought about how much some people need to be mindful of their distortions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spunkloaf View Post
    I tried to adapt the list that I have according to the online forum environment, because when I saw it I thought about how much some people need to be mindful of their distortions.
    Hard feelings cant be avoided eventually and that leads to never ending tit for tat.
    I am a part of that and Im not stopping anytime soon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Hard feelings cant be avoided eventually and that leads to never ending tit for tat.
    I am a part of that and Im not stopping anytime soon
    I suppose if that's how you feel and you prefer to be obstinate, then so be it. There must be some sort of use for people who just prefer to squabble over reasonable discussion, I'm sure.

    Who knows when we'll find out what that reason is, but I'm sure it's there.
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    To me there's two important rules. One is specific to the Internet: You never win an argument on the Internet. In real life you can, someone can physically win, someone can pull rank and order you, but on the Internet, not really so.

    Two, always keep in mind you could be wrong. Corollary: Don't be afraid to test ideas. You learn by being wrong, not by being right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spunkloaf View Post
    Cognitive Distortions
    Cognitive Distortions

    Everybody has some cognitive distortions. However there are two kinds of people who suffer much greater from cognitive distortions: people with mental disorders and people who debate politics.

    For the sakes of honesty and good faith, please refer yourself or other forum members to this thread while debating or discussing if you recognize a cognitive distortion. This is not a list of rules or forum regulations. Also, this list is not absolute. This is simply an organized list of common fouls people make while debating one another on the forum.


    The most common cognitive distortions are:

    1. All or nothing thinking: This involves seeing things in black and white categories, not seeing things in between categories.
    2. Over-generalization: This involves seeing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
    3. Mental filter: When an individual picks out a single negative detail and dwells on this, much like drops of ink that discolor the entire pool of water.
    4. Disqualifying the positive: When an individual rejects positive experiences by negating them or insisting they don't count for one reason or another. This enables the individual to maintain a negative belief system that is contradicted by positive everyday experiences. The other side of the "coin" is focusing on the negative.
    5. Jumping to conclusions: When a person makes a negative interpretation, even though there are no definite facts that would support the conclusion. For example, "mind reading" - arbitrarily concluding that someone is reacting negatively to you, or to an individual, when this has not been checked out.
    6. Catastrophizing/minimizing: In catastrophizing, a person exaggerates the importance of things such as one minor mistake. In minimizing, a person inappropriately shrinks things until they appear very inconsequential. For example, minimizing a person's or group's desirable qualities.
    7. Emotional reasoning: When an individual assumes that negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are just because they feel it.
    8. Should statements: When a person tries to motivate an individual with shoulds and shouldn'ts, and the implied consequence of not following through is guilt. When an individual directs should statements to another person, it is often the result of anger, frustration, and resentment.
    9. Labeling and mislabeling: This can be thought of as an extreme form of over-generalization. Instead of describing a mistake an individual may make, they would attach a negative label to that person. For example, instead of a person stating "that is not correct", they may say "you're an idiot."
    10. Personalization: This is when an individual sees a critical comment as a deliberate attack on themselves, or others, or their ideals.
    11. Victimization: This involves always seeing oneself, another person, or a group as the victim of circumstances and being powerless to do anything to change.
    12. Entitlement: This is seeing the world revolving around oneself, another person or group. One deserves to have it their way. The world/society owes them what they want.
    13. Fallacy of fairness: We feel resentful because we think we know what is fair, but other people won’t agree with us. As our parents tell us when we’re growing up and something doesn’t go our way, “Life isn’t always fair.” People who go through life applying a measuring ruler against every situation judging its “fairness” will often feel badly and negative because of it. Because life isn’t “fair” — things will not always work out in your favor, even when you think they should.
    14. Always being right: We are continually on trial to prove that our opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and we will go to any length to demonstrate our rightness. For example, “I don’t care how badly arguing with me makes you feel, I’m going to win this argument no matter what because I’m right.” Being right often is more important than the feelings of others around a person who engages in this cognitive distortion, even loved ones.
    You left out probably the most common one used. Hypothesis contrary to fact (if/then). I am continually pointing that out.

    "If Obama were not black, then he would never have been elected."

    The premise is supposition, thus the conclusion is invalid. Those that use it have such a weak argument that the have to concoct a premise and argue it as fact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    You left out probably the most common one used. Hypothesis contrary to fact (if/then). I am continually pointing that out.

    "If Obama were not black, then he would never have been elected."

    The premise is supposition, thus the conclusion is invalid. Those that use it have such a weak argument that the have to concoct a premise and argue it as fact.
    Because hypothetical thinking is not a distortion or illogical. Science is founded on it. So is government: if we make this law then everything will be just peachy dandy.
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