Mel walks into his house one night and finds his wife sitting at the dinner table crying. He immediately thinks "What have I done to hurt her?" His cognitive error is ______.

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Mel's assumption that he is the cause of his wife's distress without evidence is an example of personalization, a cognitive error where an individual blames themselves for external events beyond their control.

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