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The opposite of personalization; holding other people responsible for the harm they cause, and especially for their intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress. Example: someone blames their spouse entirely for marital problems, instead of looking at their own part in the problems.
The opposite of personalization; holding other people responsible for the harm they cause, and especially for their intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress. Example: someone blames their spouse entirely for marital problems, instead of looking at their own part in the problems.


==Disqualifying the positive==
==Disqualifying the Positive==
Discounting positive events.
Discounting positive events. Example: Upon receiving a congratulation, a person dismisses it out-of-hand, believing it to be undeserved, and automatically interpreting the compliment (at least inwardly) as an attempt at flattery or perhaps as arising out of naïveté.
 
Example: Upon receiving a congratulation, a person dismisses it out-of-hand, believing it to be undeserved, and automatically interpreting the compliment (at least inwardly) as an attempt at flattery or perhaps as arising out of naïveté.


==Emotional reasoning==
==Emotional reasoning==