Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #20: Affective Dissonance - Labeling and Mislabeling
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Affective Dissonance: Labeling and Mislabeling Closely related to disqualifying the positive is the affective dissonance (a type of cognitive distortion that is more emotion than cognition) of labeling, usually pejoratively, and mislabeling (most pejorative labels are mislabels). Sometimes, labeling and mislabeling has been referred to as negative self-talk, but it is more than self-talk. It is a matter of putting yourself into a category—and we are all larger than any category. It is, of course, human nature to want to label the things around us. We want categories of things for storing information neatly in our brain. We don’t really like things that don’t feat neatly into a category. In this case, though, it is not things you are labeling—and mislabeling. It is yourself, and that has significant repercussions for learning. Identifying mislabels Labeling and mislabeling refers to having to ha...