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Re:Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs ... by chmod775 on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:36PM (#29356742)
> For example, this from their questionnaire:

What you quoted isn't from any questionnaire. It's an illustrative example given in the paper.

Edit: I am wrong. Those examples actually showed up in a questionnaire and participants were asked to rate how likely they are to engage in that kind of thinking.

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Re:Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs ... by apocalypstyx on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:38PM (#29356750)
Yes, I misread. But I would still scrutinize the reasoning expressed by the sample for the same reasons.
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Re:Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs ... by chmod775 on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:39PM (#29356756)
Actually, no you didn't misread. I did.

> Participants are given two vivid examples of each distortion [...] and then report how frequently they engage in each type of thinking.

> For example, emotional reasoning is illustrated with the following examples:

That sure sounds like participants faced those examples somewhere.

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