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50 Common Cognitive Distortions

50 Common Cognitive Distortions
3. Negative predictions. Overestimating the likelihood that an action will have a negative outcome. 4. Underestimating coping ability. Underestimating your ability cope with negative events. 5. Thinking of unpleasant events as catastrophes. 6. For example, during social interactions, paying attention to someone yawning but not paying the same degree of attention to other cues that suggest they are interested in what you’re saying (such as them leaning in). 7. Remembering negatives from a social situation and not remembering positives. 8. Believing an absence of a smiley-face in an email means someone is mad at you. 9. The belief that achieving unrelentingly high standards is necessary to avoid a catastrophe. 10. Believing the same rules that apply to others should not apply to you. 11. For example, I’ve made progress toward my goal and therefore it’s ok if I act in a way that is inconsistent with it. 12. For example, believing that poor people must deserve to be poor. 13. 14. It’s not. 15. 16. Related:  Distorted Thinking

Petit recueil de 18 moisissures argumentatives pour concours de mauvaise foi Petit recueil de non plus 18, mais 20 moisissures argumentatives à utiliser sans modération lors des concours de mauvaise foi. Ont été intégrés les plurium et l’argument de l’exotisme. Nous avons découpé ces moisissures argumentatives en trois grandes catégories : les erreurs logiques, les attaques, et les travestissements. Télécharger en pdf la mise en page magnifique du graphiste Francois-b. 1. La généralisation abusive Méthode : prendre un échantillon trop petit et en tirer une conclusion générale. Exemples : Mon voisin est un imbécile moustachu, donc tous les moustachus sont des imbéciles.Les Chinois sont vachement sympas. Exemples aggravés (menant au racisme ordinaire) : Le Chinois est vachement sympa. 2. Méthode : raisonner à rebours, vers une cause possible parmi d’autres, vers un scénario préconçu ou vers la position que l’on souhaite prouver. Exemples : Exemple aggravé : 3. Méthode : tirer une conclusion ne suivant pas logiquement les prémisses. Si A est vraie, alors B est vraie. 4. 5.

Forer effect A related and more general phenomenon is that of subjective validation.[1] Subjective validation occurs when two unrelated or even random events are perceived to be related because a belief, expectation, or hypothesis demands a relationship. Thus people seek a correspondence between their perception of their personality and the contents of a horoscope. Forer's demonstration[edit] On average, the students rated its accuracy as 4.26 on a scale of 0 (very poor) to 5 (excellent). Only after the ratings were turned in was it revealed that each student had received an identical sketch assembled by Forer from a newsstand astrology book.[2] The sketch contains statements that are vague and general enough to most people. In another study examining the Forer effect, students took the MMPI personality assessment and researchers evaluated their responses. The Forer effect is also known as the "Barnum effect". Repeating the study[edit] Variables influencing the effect[edit] Recent research[edit]

The Stop - Keep Doing - Start Process - Communication Skills Training From MindTools Simple Questions for Improving Performance MBTI® is a trademark of the MBTI Trust Inc. (see www.myersbriggs.org). We have no association or connection with this organization. "Stop – Keep Doing – Start" provides action focused feedback. © iStockphoto/pagadesign Feedback is essential for our professional growth: It helps us identify and build the skills we need for success. But asking for feedback can be daunting, particularly when we fear that it might not be wholly positive. In this article, we'll look at "Stop – Keep Doing – Start", a tool that helps us ask for focused, action-based feedback. Overview The SKS (Stop – Keep Doing – Start) Process is the formal name for a short set of questions that you can use when you ask for feedback. What should I stop doing? Phil Daniels, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University, is credited with devising the process. Tip 1: Stop – Keep Doing – Start was initially devised as a way of requesting help and feedback. Tip 2: How to Use the Process Tip:

People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more By guest blogger Tom Stafford We all know someone who is convinced their opinion is better than everyone else’s on a topic – perhaps, even, that it is the only correct opinion to have. Maybe, on some topics, you are that person. No psychologist would be surprised that people who are convinced their beliefs are superior think they are better informed than others, but this fact leads to a follow on question: are people actually better informed on the topics for which they are convinced their opinion is superior? This is what Michael Hall and Kaitlin Raimi set out to check in a series of experiments in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The researchers distinguish “belief superiority” from “belief confidence” (thinking your opinion is correct). As well as simple background knowledge, the researchers were also interested in how people with belief superiority sought out new information relevant to that belief. Overall the research presents a mixed picture. Like this:

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Feedback Matrix - Communication Skills from MindTools Using Feedback Constructively Which way do you go after receiving feedback? © iStockphoto Susanne: Hi, thanks for meeting with me today. As I mentioned, I wanted to talk with you about the construction plan you submitted yesterday. As usual, the quality of the plan was great. Charles: Thanks, it's great to hear feedback like that. Susanne: Well, I'm glad you feel that way. Charles: I'm really sorry. Susanne: That's seems reasonable. This sounds like a "textbook" feedback exchange – just how it's supposed to happen. However, while it seems ideal, we don't know how well it actually worked. Have you ever been part of a conversation like that? ... for the complete article: Mind Tools Club members, click here. Join the Mind Tools Club to finish this article AND get 1,000 more resources Join now for just $1, first month "When I started using Mind Tools, I was not in a supervisory position.

Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already. Remember the 2008 election campaign? In all of this, uninformed idiots blame the Greeks for being lazy, the Germans for being too strict, and everyone but themselves. It has been more than 10 years since Dunning and Kruger published their work. "The paper gave voice to an observation that people make about their peers, but that they don’t know how to express," Dunning said. This paper has become a cult classic.

Top 7 Psychological Defense Mechanisms Health In every human being, intrapsychic conflicts are bound to occur, usually because of sexual and aggressive impulses and tension. Usually, (or maybe hopefully), these conflicts are resolved by themselves in a short amount of time; however sometimes this is not the case. Every now and then, our internal conflicts can last for long periods of times, and can potentially cause us great harm. Oftentimes anxiety can wear and tear at us, and should not be underestimated. Fortunately, our body has defense mechanisms to defend us from unpleasant emotions and feelings, such as anxiety. 1. Rationalization is something that every human being does, probably on a daily basis. 2. Identification is defined as “Bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group.” 3. Displacement is defined as “Diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target.” 4. 5. 6. 7. Sources: Weiten, Wayne. Contributor: GeorgeT

8 pensamentos que mudarão a sua vida Neste mundo são várias as pessoas de sucesso, umas mais conhecidas outras nem tanto, mas todas com algo para nos ensinar, sobretudo quem procura ter mais sucesso e ser alguém na vida. Foi através destas pessoas que se fez este artigo com alguns pensamentos que mudarão a sua vida por certo. Pensamentos que no último dos casos lhe trarão algum tempo de reflexão, de luta interior de pensamentos e que no final o conduzirão a uma conclusão em relação à sua vida. O tempo não me preenche, eu preencho o tempo! Parâmetros e prazos a cumprir, definem tempo, mas geralmente não de uma forma eficaz. As pessoas que me rodeiam são as pessoas que escolhi! É comum lidarmos com pessoas que pura e simplesmente nos deixam loucas por alguma razão, mas somos nós que escolhemos quais são as pessoas que nos rodeiam. A experiência é irrelevante. Imaginemos que você tem “10 anos de trabalho em web-design”. O insucesso é algo que conquisto, não algo que aparece do nada Os voluntários ganham sempre

Perché gli stupidi si credono intelligenti? – RicPuglisi Vi è mai capitato di incontrare dei perfetti idioti che si credono dei portenti di intelligenza? Sicuramente sì. Potrebbe esservi anche capitato di essere sicuri di avere capito tutto su un certo tema, ma -con il senno di poi- realizzare di esservi illusi di capire, quando in realtà avevate capito poco o niente. Si tratta di un tema molto generale: noi esseri umani siamo capaci di essere obiettivi su noi stessi e sulla nostra intelligenza? La risposta giusta è: no. In particolare, quanto più qualcuno è incompetente su un certo tema o in una certa attività, tanto più crede di essere più bravo di quel che è. L’effetto per cui se sei stupido e/o scarso su un certo tema non sai neanche di esserlo si chiama “effetto Dunning/Kruger”, dal nome dei due psicologi che ne hanno dimostrato la presenza attraverso una serie di esperimenti. Si tratta in buona sostanza di una “stupidità al quadrato”, in quanto sei stupido e lo sei talmente tanto da non capire di esserlo. La prova di ciò? Mi piace:

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