Are You An Emotional Reasoner?
Channel: MentalHouse TV w/Khadijah
Date: 2022-01-08

So what, exactly, is emotional reasoning? This term, meant to describe a particular type of cognitive distortion, was first employed in the ’70s by Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy (later expanded to Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or CBT). To Beck, whenever someone concludes that their emotional reaction to something thereby defines its reality, they’re engaged in emotional reasoning. Any observed evidence is disregarded or dismissed in favor of the assumed “truth” of their feelings. Additionally, Beck believed that such reasoning originated from negative thoughts, best appreciated as involuntary, uncontrollable, or automatic.

So, for example, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by something, such a feeling “proves” that the present circumstance is too much for you to handle. And this explains one key aspect of procrastination—as in, if you feel you’ll fail at something, you’ll probably put it off, or not even attempt it.

Further, you might wish to consider whether you’re negatively “mind-reading” another’s intentions because you have unresolved issues with them. Or whether (as your friends may already have suggested) you take things more personally than makes any logical sense. Or whether your emotions depict an act of “fortune-telling”—that is, they’re grounded in a prediction that the present event, because it resembles (however obliquely or coincidentally) some past event, is bound to turn out the same way. And so on, with even more logical fallacies tied to emotional reasoning.





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