Biased interpretation is not restricted to emotionally significant topics.
Biased interpretation offers an explanation for this effect: seeing the initial evidence, people form a working hypothesis that affects how they interpret the rest of the information.
This effect is a kind of biased interpretation, in that objectively neutral or unfavorable evidence is interpreted to support existing beliefs.
To address the degree of transfer of interpretive bias, future research could incorporate alternative measures of biased interpretation such as homograph priming, or homophone spelling to assess the degree to which imagery-based CBM-I results in such 'far' transfer effects.
Critics say they also were subject to biased interpretation through use of a subjective rating scale.
A methodology was proposed to correct the erroneous and biased interpretation of AF4 performance in terms of signal characteristics, resolution and recovery.
42 (2004) 155), who found that socially anxious individuals accurately recalled threat-relevant information but subsequently imposed a biased interpretation upon that same material, using more ecologically valid stimuli.
"The large sample size allows for reliable detection of even comparatively small effects of maltreatment on the brain, whereas the recruitment from the general population allows for a less biased interpretation of the study, which builds on previous research often carried out in psychiatric patients".
Investigators with conflicts of interest are more likely to arrive at positive conclusions, perhaps as a result of biased study design, industry suppression of negative results, preferential funding by industry of projects that are likely to succeed, or biased interpretation of results on the part of investigators.
The previous approaches cannot capture complex non-linearities, which could lead to a biased interpretation of the results (e.g. Zanin and Marra 2012).
Taking the criterion of rehabilitation potential as an example, we demonstrate how its four components remain too general to address the circumstances of older patients and how this can promote a biased interpretation that may disadvantage them.
