Principlev1

Identify the automatic thought mediating between trigger and

Identify the automatic thought mediating between trigger and emotion, not just the correlation between situation and response, because the appraisal is the actual causal mechanism.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Automatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation (brains generate causal narratives pre-consciously) and Between every event and every emotional response is a (cognitive appraisal interprets events before emotion). This prescribes capturing the mediating thought, not just the trigger-emotion pair, based on the axiom that appraisal causes emotion.

Source Lessons

L-1215

Emotional triggers inventory

List the situations people and thoughts that reliably trigger specific emotions.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomAutomatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation AxiomPiagetian Equilibration Through Schema Dynamics AxiomBetween every event and every emotional response is a

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