ArchiveOctober 6, 2026Mastermind
Case File · Distortion · No. 076
Daily Casefile · Distortion
Aunt Vera's Lamb Stew
≈ 9 min
Read the account below and identify (a) which single cognitive distortion best describes the speaker's reasoning — or whether there is no distortion at all — and (b) the exact phrase in the text that signals it. This is a logic puzzle, not a diagnosis or a source of advice; the speaker is a fictional, invented person.
The scene
A home kitchen the evening after a family recipe attempt produced an unpalatable result.
In the differential
- Overgeneralisation
- Labelling
- Fortune-telling
- Emotional reasoning
- No distortion — a reasonable reaction
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