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The control fallacy is a bias when interpreting reality that causes us to greatly overestimate or underestimate the degree of influence we have over our environment.
Have you ever had the constant feeling that everything depended on you? Or, on the contrary, have you felt that it was your circumstances that controlled you and that you were unable to change anything? So, you may have experienced the control fallacy.
But what is behind this type of fallacy? What are fallacies really? How does this specifically condition us? Can it be fought? Let’s find out!
What is the control fallacy?
The control fallacy is a mental bias, a cognitive distortion. Cognitive distortions are erroneous ways of processing information. They imply a misinterpretation of reality, and lead to inaccurate judgments of it.
Through this control bias, The person believes that they have absolute control of everything that happens to them; or on the contrary, you believe that you are completely incompetent to solve your problems. In the second case, the person believes that circumstances (or other people) control them.
The person with this bias usually believes themselves responsible for everything that happens to them, or just the opposite: feeling helpless and unable to control anything in their life.
As we see, in the control fallacy, the concept of control, despite the redundancy, is altered. Either by excess (“everything depends on me, I have control over everything that happens to me”) or by default (“I am incapable of controlling anything in my environment”).
What are fallacies?
We can also understand this bias as a fallacy, as its name indicates. Fallacies are concepts closely related to cognitive distortions..
According to Irving M. Copi, author of Introduction to logic (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1969), fallacy is ‘a form of reasoning that seems correct, but turns out not to be correct when carefully analyzed’. In the most philosophical sphere, the fallacy has been defined as a ‘incorrect reasoning, but psychologically persuasive‘.
It is not always easy to detect fallacies, since they usually sound “good”, in addition to being subtle and convincing.
Feel like we can control everything
A person with a control fallacy, who feels that they can control everything, is likely to also feel that this control can lead them to an increasingly better situation. We are talking about people who tend to be very controlling, rigid and perfectionists.
What they think they cannot control generates fear or rejection.. On the other hand, they overestimate the degree of real control they have over what they think they can control.
However, let’s not fool ourselves: All this generates self-demand and brutal stress. to the person who maintains this fallacy.
Feeling that nothing depends on us
At the opposite pole of the control fallacy, we find the following: the person believes that they cannot change anything in their life. That her life controls her.
And this also generates suffering. They tend to be people with low self-esteem and many insecurities.who tend to place the responsibilities of their own lives on others.
Causes of the control fallacy
What is behind the control fallacy? In the dressing rooms of the problem we would find the following:
High self-demand. Having deep-rooted beliefs that “everything depends on us.” Having an internal locus of control (according to which what happens to us depends on oneself, and not on external factors). Fear of delegating tasks. Being excessively perfectionist. Having an anxious personality.
On the other hand, when we believe that nothing depends on us and that, therefore, we have no control over events, we would find:
An external locus of control (“everything depends on the environment”). Being an anxious person, who worries a lot about things. Feeling of learned helplessness. Personal insecurities (thinking that we are not capable of changing anything). Low self-esteem. .
How to combat the control fallacy?
Can this type of fallacy be combated? The answer is yes, with patience and dedication. Some ideas that may help you are the following:
Contrast ideas with reliable sources of information. Begin to develop critical thinking about things.Question our way of thinking; Do not always give it as “valid”. Evaluate our thoughts and record the possible fallacies or cognitive distortions that we commit.
In short: in the control fallacy there is a filter when it comes to processing and interpreting reality which can occur in two ways. In the first, we have the feeling of being able to control everything; In the second, we feel that we have no control over anything and that people, life or the environment dominate us.
In the second case, in addition, there may be a feeling of learned helplessness, through which we feel incapable of changing anything in our life.
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