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Example: After receiving comments about a work presentation, a person focuses on the single critical comment and ignores what went well.
Example: After receiving comments about a work presentation, a person focuses on the single critical comment and ignores what went well.
==Jumping to conclusions==
==Jumping to conclusions==
Reaching preliminary conclusions (usually negative) from little (if any) evidence. Two specific subtypes are identified:
Reaching preliminary conclusions (usually negative) from little (if any) evidence. Two specific subtypes are identified:


*Mind reading: Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and nonverbal communication; taking precautions against the worst reasonably suspected case or some other preliminary conclusion, without asking the person.
*Mind reading: Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and nonverbal communication; taking precautions against the worst reasonably suspected case or some other preliminary conclusion, without asking the person.
Example: A student assumes the readers of their paper have already made up their mind concerning its topic, and therefore writing the paper is a pointless exercise.[5]
Example: A student assumes the readers of their paper have already made up their mind concerning its topic, and therefore writing the paper is a pointless exercise.
*Fortune-telling: predicting outcomes (usually negative) of events.
*Fortune-telling: predicting outcomes (usually negative) of events. Example: Being convinced of failure before a test, when the student is in fact prepared.
Example: Being convinced of failure before a test, when the student is in fact prepared.
 
==Labeling and mislabeling==
==Labeling and mislabeling==