The New Car

≈ 6 min

Read the monologue below and decide: which ONE cognitive distortion does the speaker's reasoning show — or is there no distortion at all? Then pick the single phrase that signals it. This is a puzzle about thinking patterns, not a diagnosis or advice. The speaker is a fictional, invented person.

The scene

A faint noise from a brand-new car

In the differential

Fortune-telling
Catastrophising
Magnification / Minimisation
Emotional reasoning
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on July 27, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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