That tendency based on recency bias to assert in a spat with a spouse, parent, or child that “you always do X”? It appears to have intrapersonal analogs. For example, when:
- there’s one outstanding thing on my to-do list weighing on me that makes me exclaim things like, “I never have enough time!”; or when
- one area of frustration about failing finding a social niche leads me to think things like “I never fit in anywhere.”