How clearly do you think you see the world? Well, I have scary news. We don’t see things as they are. We don’t even see. We perceive. Your eyes, ears, and senses receive information from the outside ...

The Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish explores the case of two thirteen-year-olds, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny, who received thousands of anonymous, harassing messages ...

In previous posts, I’ve written about the cognitive side of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The main technique involves identifying negative automatic thoughts and reframing those thoughts into ...

Negative people are always manipulative and scheming. Their minds remain busy in overthinking to devise traps and machinations to corral circumstances to their own benefit or for the harm of others.

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

In 1976, psychologist Aaron Beck, best known for the Beck Depression Inventory, proposed a theory to explain how negative self-talk — or cognitive distortions — prevent people from defining and ...

Have you ever fallen into a thinking trap? "I already messed up my plan by eating a piece of cake, so I might as well start my diet over again on Monday!" "I have a really bad headache. Could this be ...

Psychologists have long known that people with depression often have unhelpful, negative patterns of thinking, known as cognitive distortions. Bathina et al. now show that these thought patterns can ...

Following national elections, voters rewrite their memories of the political event and distort their initial expectations to ...

Although substantial research has examined the individual effects of CM and cognitive biases in relation to mental health, particularly MDD, the link between CM and cognitive biases remains ...