Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the ...

Catastrophizing is a type of cognitive distortion. Some examples of catastrophizing: ...

Black and white thinking is when someone thinks in extremes. Learn more about what it is, what causes it, and what you can do about it.

There has been no systematic study in the literature of how self-deception differs from other kinds of self-distortion. For example, the term ‘cognitive dissonance’ has been used in some cases as a ...