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juliawise comments on Does cognitive therapy encourage bias? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: juliawise 24 July 2012 04:35:21PM 0 points [-]

I asked a professor about this in a class on CBT - "Aren't we just replacing biases with other biases?" and she answered, "Well, I wouldn't want to get rid of all biases." It drove me crazy at the time, but now I think there's some merit to it. E.g. I think it's fine for parents to believe their baby is more wonderful than all other babies. That's part of how love works.

I think the false (or unproven) beliefs of the kind CBT encourages, like "I am a capable person who can X" have hardly any bad effects, and the expected benefits of these deviations from the evidence are worth it.