Next, and slightly more troubling, we have some rather misleading and selective recollection regarding Jim Hansen's testimony to congress in 1988.
It is precisely from the deeply selective recollection of the last decade that all the Republican candidates (with the notable exception of Ron Paul) recite a mantra that, unlike Obama, "they will not apologise for America".
However, even if balanced information is provided, individuals may have selective recollection of this as well as preconceived ideas about screening initiatives.
But their childhood friend Sullivan contradicts their selective recollections, defending the man who had become a father figure to him.
The tendency, in selective recollections of history, is to choose the version that looks most like an alibi — and it is for this reason that the conversation Coates has restarted is not really about reparations.
Very occasionally, as in a startling passage that offers a real-life analogy to the socially ambitious Crawfords of "Mansfield Park," a sentence leaps free of Deresiewicz's selective recollections.
The expectation creates challenges for organizations, as the criteria used by evaluators vary and ratings become misconstrued by factors outside of an organization's control (e.g., a hotel's rating may be affected by street noise, the weather at the time of a visit, the appearance of other guests, and so on), as well as the reviewers' selective recollections and unclear (or poor) writing.
Importantly, as it might be expected from the enhanced connectivity between the midbrain/striatum and the hippocampus, a key region for encoding subsequently recollected events (Ranganath et al., 2004; Staresina and Davachi, 2008), the memory enhancement for unexpected stimuli was selective to recollection memory with no enhancement of familiarity responses.
"Professor Glover is being a bit selective in her recollection of events," he said.
This explanation (a selective loss of recollection-based recognition) received preliminary support from a study of several colloid cyst patients with bilateral fornix loss (Aggleton et al., 2000), though the first direct test in a group study came from the cohort of 38 cases described above (Tsivilis et al., 2008).
His recollection is selective, skipping over uncomfortable twists and turns he took to survive.
