Becoming mindful of these common cognitive distortions will help you understand yourself (and other people) better and improve your decision-making. 1. Personalizing Taking something personally that ...

Cookie Monster wants to eat better! The long-time resident of Sesame Street is ready to eat fewer of those famous chocolate chip cookies. He has talked to his doctor and his famous friends about his ...

You are watching yourself fail to stop caring about being watched. This advice also misunderstands the source of the prob ...

There are many books and articles about cognitive distortions—the ways of thinking that prevent us from accurately perceiving reality. These cognitive distortions are often discussed in the context of ...

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 ...

Thinking is a cognitive process where one uses their mind to generate ideas, formulate solutions to problems and reflect on experiences. Thoughts are expressed in words and actions with profound power ...

In a recent study published in the journal NPJ Vaccines, researchers used data from 1,200 US participants with differing preexisting vaccination biases (anti-vaccination, neutral, or pro-vaccination ...

Gambling behavior is a biopsychosocial product of complex interplay of an individual’s reward processing system, cognitive function, particularly cognitive distortions, emotional factors and social ...