The next 4 Thinking Traps are grouped under the category Personalization. We commit these distortions when we cannot step outside of our own egocentric perspective.

Thinking Traps: Personalization

1. Personalization (Me, Self-Blame)
   • Helplessness
2. Blame (Them, Other-Blame)
   • Always Being Right
3. Emotional Reasoning (Naïve Realism, Affective Realism)
4. Should (Should Statement, "Musturbation")
   • Perfectionism
   • Comparison
   • Fallacy of Fairness

Antidotes

1. Reattribution
2. Acceptance Paradox
3. Semantic Method