He needed something from it: self-confirmation, emotional comfort.
(117 IT) Increased self-awareness was reflected as increased insight and self-confirmation, as well as increased body awareness, and a changed view of life such that life itself felt brighter was viewed as increased belief in the future.
This is so commonplace that a failure to persist turns into self-confirmation that not trying was the best option, which then turns into folklore and hearsay about the pointlessness of trying.
And once you start down the slippery slope of self-confirmation that reality is only ever what you see it as, you're open to the possibilities of bigotry, selfishness, intolerance, and prejudice because you'll constantly seek to make everyone and everything else conform to your standard of reality, and your standard of "what's right".
His vulgarity isn't a joyful and exuberant populism but a narrow and demagogic moralism; the emotional intensities of "War Horse" aren't an expanding of consciousness or a wisening of the heart but a trite and self-satisfied confirmation of comforting verities.
Rather than applying mystical formulas to self-selected confirmation biases, and assuming that secret sauces are only the right pinch of salt away, the more successful approach to games usually revolves around what Seth Godin calls tribal marketing.
The results indicate that perceived enjoyment, perceived usefulness, internet self-efficacy, and confirmation of expectations all significantly influence the participants' satisfaction with use of the internet.
Duration of diabetes was based on self-report, without confirmation from medical records.
Data on illnesses of interest were based on participants' self-report, without confirmation by a health care professional.
Finally, staff measured smoking status by self-report with confirmation by urine dipstick using the NicAlert test strips (Jant Pharmacal; Encino, CA).
