The Red Ink Mark

≈ 6 min

Read the monologue below and decide (a) which single cognitive distortion best describes the speaker's dominant reasoning pattern, and (b) which verbatim phrase most clearly signals it. This is a puzzle, not a diagnosis — the speaker is a fictional character invented for the puzzle.

The scene

A university corridor after a marked assignment is handed back in a seminar group

In the differential

Mind-reading
Fortune-telling
Personalisation
Emotional reasoning
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on August 16, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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