Recent research described emotional reasoning as a mechanism that “can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated.”

This leads to inaccurate emotional truths which directly contradict any objective, perceptual truths.

This is a thought pattern in which our emotional reactions, or our feelings, lead us to believe that something is true even when the empirical evidence tells us otherwise. 

Emotional reasoning is very common in the workplace. If you have ever found yourself thinking, “I...