Cognitive distortion: Mistakes of thinking and assistants of charlatans
The ominous phrase “cognitive distortion” is the common mistakes of thinking that we all systematically perform. It is they who cause unreasonable assessments, conclusions, decisions and actions. Such errors are not individual (they are inherent in most people) and predictable: the specialist can predict in what situation the human mind will give this or that failure - and nevertheless, cognitive distortions occupy most of our picture of the world.