Imagine you had a neophobic cat. In other words your cat was fearful of anything or anyone new that entered your home. And because these additions frightened the cat, he sought to neutralize their negative effect by peeing on them to signal his claim. Under those circumstances I image most of us would make the same assumption a client who had such a cat did. In her mind, the cat was always peeing everywhere.
But the cat wasn’t really. It just seemed that way because she was an avid shopper as well as a highly social person. As a result, she often received deliveries of one sort or another and routinely invited new people to her home. So even though it seemed like nothing in her home was safe from baptism by cat pee, that wasn’t really the case. He only peed on the new arrivals.
This week’s podcast considers similar problem-behavior perceptual traps and how to avoid them.
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