Daniel Kahneman, co-author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, asserts that cognitive biases often lead to errors...

Daniel Kahneman, co-author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, asserts that cognitive biases often lead to errors in judgment. How can such errors impact stress and coping?

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One predisposing factor is cognitive bias leading to stress. A cognitive bias is a way in which our thinking or perceiving is systematically distorted. An example is confirmation bias: when we wonder, “Is it true that X”, we tend to take the first thing we come across that confirms our initial opinion, as conclusive proof, and stop questioning right there.
Impact bias is the tendency to predict that bad feelings will be more intense and last longer than actually is the case. For example you think that if you mess up the presentation you have to give, you're going to feel awful about it and you'll probably never get over it – you greatly exaggerate the negative impact.This is very significant to stress because it tends to create more of what we call resistance, which means not wanting to face the feelings, wanting to avoid or suppress them, which generally leads into a negative spiral or worsening stress.
Knowing about your cognitive biases would help you create some separation from your own thinking patterns. Instead of seeing the world through the distorting lens of the biases without realising, you can see these thinking patterns as just something the mind does. A CBT therapist could help you in coping with your biases to remove the negative thinking and think more positively.

Hayet Jeridi answered 9 months ago

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