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When something goes wrong in a group, I assume I am probably the cause even when I had no role in it
Personalisation — a cognitive bias where unrelated negative events are attributed to oneself — is one of the core distortions identified in cognitive behavioural therapy. It often develops from environments where the individual was systematically blamed for things outside their control.
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Aaron Beck, the founder of cognitive behavioural therapy, identified personalisation as one of ten core cognitive distortions in his 1979 framework — it has since been replicated as one of the most common patterns across thousands of clinical studies.
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