How frequently do you find yourself thinking, feeling, or talking as if there’s only one right way of looking at things? Ever so often, humans speak in binaries – either right or wrong, winner or loser, fat or thin, smart or stupid. Everything is either black or white, with no scope of a grey middle …
What is Overgeneralisation? Put simply, ‘overgeneralisation’ is the act of taking a conclusion from one instance and applying it to every similar situation, even (and especially) where it doesn’t apply. When you face a particular outcome from a situation and then assume that outcome to be universal to many other situations, you are overgeneralising.Overgeneralised statements …
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