Psychoethics: The Normative Study of Emotional Speech Acts

Psychology Today | 27.02.2026 06:32
In this post, I introduce a new study I call “Psychoethics” based on Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), according to which people deduce self-destructive emotions and behavior from self-defeating speech acts embedded in their emotional reasoning, including demanding perfection, self-damning, "can’tstipation," catastrophizing, and world-revolves-around-me (WRAM) thinking.