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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. | 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== | ||