Emotional reasoning

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Emotional reasoning or emotional reasoning (English: emotional reasoning ) is when someone from his feelings conclusions about facts draws. Example: “I feel jealous and distrustful. That means that my partner is probably cheating. ”Emotional reasoning is a form of cognitive distortion , whereby no corrective experiences can be gained that question previous beliefs ( schema (psychology) ) (see Beck's model of depression ).

Indeed, emotions are triggered by the mostly unconscious mindset about the observed event, influenced by other cognitive distortions and biases . Emotions are therefore completely unsuitable for assessing the correctness of an assumption, since they are a result of the assumption.

The term goes back to the psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck , who introduced it in 1979 as part of his reflections on cognitive behavioral therapy . People with a tendency to depression, in particular, often listen excessively to their negative gut feelings instead of simply looking at the objective facts. In stressful situations, however, people generally tend to react emotionally to a given event instead of finding a strategically clever answer.

impact

A person who is subject to an emotional conclusion does not question the assumption made due to the confirmation error and the accompanying self-delusion and ignores evidence that speaks against the assumption made. The lack of evidence further exacerbates other cognitive biases.

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Particular attention is paid to the emotional evidence in cognitive behavioral therapy , which shows the patient thought patterns that result in negative emotions by questioning them and makes them aware in order to then replace them with thought patterns that result in positive emotions.

Nonviolent Communication

The non-violent communication (GRP) encountered emotional conclusions by the process of feeling formation is made aware. In NVC, it is important to assume responsibility for one's own emotions (referred to as “feelings” in NVC) and to question assumptions - especially those that result in a negative emotion.

Examples

Here are some examples of false conclusions based on emotional evidence:

  • "I feel guilty, so I'm guilty."
  • "I'm mad at another person so they did something wrong."
  • "If my feeling says something is good, then it is also good, and if it says something is bad, then it is also bad."
  • “Look at how beautiful the world is! So there has to be a God who created them. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhena Branch, Rob Willson: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies . 2nd Edition. Wiley, Chichester, West Sussex, England 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-66541-1 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Frank Wills: Cognitive Therapy according to Aaron T. Beck. Therapeutic skills compact . Junferman, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-87387-950-8 , pp. 47–48 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b David Burns: Feeling Good: Overcoming depression, gaining self-respect: Learning to feel good again without medication . 3. Edition. Junfermann Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-87387-628-6 , pp. 416 (English: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy . Translated by Theo Kierdorf, Hildegar Hör).
  4. ↑ Aaron T. Beck, A. John Rush, Brian F. Shaw, Gary. Emery: Cognitive Therapy of Depression . Guilford, New York 1979, ISBN 0-89862-000-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Rhena Branch, Rob Willson: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies . 2nd Edition. Wiley, Chichester, West Sussex, England 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-66541-1 , pp. 43 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Karen J. Landsman, Kathleen M. Rupertus, Cherry Pedrick: Loving Someone with OCD: Help for You and Your Family . New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA 2005, ISBN 978-1-57224-329-3 , pp. 79 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Klaus Karstädt: How feelings arise. In: YouTube. Nonviolent TV, accessed June 19, 2014 .
  8. ^ Marshall B. Rosenberg : Nonviolent Communication . 11th edition. Junfermann, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-87387-454-1 .