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After Jed was "dumped" by his girlfriend, he began thinking that women cannot be trusted. He promised never to let himself get involved with another woman again, because "she will leave me just like my last girlfriend did." His cognitive error is ______

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His cognitive error is ______ overgeneralization.....

Step-by-step explanation:

Overgeneralization is the phenomenon when a person applies one experience and generalize it to all other experiences including the ones which are yet to come in future.

Jed not trusting all women is an example of overgeneralization.

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