Jumping to conclusions is when you make up your mind without having all the facts. Learning to slow down and check the evidence can help you respond more calmly and clearly.
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So, S. H., et al. (2011). Jumping to Conclusions, a Lack of Belief Flexibility and Delusions. — A large cohort study showing that JTC (limited data gathering before judgments) is a robust reasoning bias, conceptually close to CBT’s idea of cognitive distortion. Beck, A. T. (1979). Cognitive Therapy of Depression. Guilford Press. — Classic cognitive therapy work proposing arbitrary inference, a formal CBT definition of drawing conclusions without sufficient evidence (the essence of jumping to conclusions).
