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cognitive distortion

an instance in which our minds trick us into believing a falsehood, or something that is not true.

girl 1: i dont want to go to the party! everyone will laugh at my dress.
girl 2: you don't know that! you're jumping to conclusions; and that's a cognitive distortion.

by crestfallendays July 31, 2018


Cognitive distortion

03/02, 17:06 Gary Santino: Cognitive distortion= emotional reasoning = quickest reflexative naturally existing biological component of the brain/mind architecture. This means fewer calories are required for the open-ended possibility of cerebral/ intellectual reasoning to fully examine any analysis of a topic.
03/02, 17:09 Gary Santino: In turn, mental reflexes generate neural pathways for thought processes to travel along without the necessity to commit a fully integrated process, for energy conservation

Therefore, to distrust your frame of reference, in turn, you end up liberating those knee jerk decision making reactions, which take place because you are predominantly using emotional maps.

What do you think of President X, well I think he's useless because he did this to his family.

Examples of bad parenting skills being used against someone's ability to run a countrys affairs, is a classic piece of cognitive distortion, which can be utilised by a political opponent, within a lazy electorate, who have succumbed to personality politics, not the politics on of itself, because of the immediate dopamine reward the brain delivers for the quickest response possible, without engaging an extensive amount of calories.

by BudgieMuscle1 February 3, 2024