The ACLU highlighted that in several of those examples, people had checked they wanted to register to vote but not that they were citizens (though they did sign an affirmation indicating they were a citizen).
van Koningsbruggen and Das interpret such findings as indicating that self-affirmation may have 'adverse effects', but, as Harris and Epton (2009) note, self-affirmation 'is not a technique for increasing persuasion.
In the case of each data set, a curator was required to extract the following information: PubMed ID (PMID) of the abstract, gene terms and the corresponding gene ID from Entrez Gene, evidential sentences indicating that a gene is a biomarker for liver cancer, and relationship affirmation in the case of the tool-assisted curation (defined in the following section).
This cascade of affirmations indicates the centrality of emotions through what Collins (2004) termed an "interaction ritual chain" (p. 3).
The contemporary affirmation of recent literature indicate that issues like timeliness, linearity of computational complexity, incremental update of the classifier, and concept drift adaptation in data stream classification are still significant constraints.
The results indicate that self-affirmation may compensate for ego depletion, with theoretical implications for the psychology of customization technology and practical implications for design of customization options in media interfaces.
Evidence indicates that self-affirmation promotes open-mindedness and, thereby, facilitates attention to the merits and demerits of presented messages.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, indicate that a need for positive affirmation may drive people to use Facebook.
But when the numerical scale only includes positive numbers, a selection near the mid-point more clearly indicates affirmation that an illusion experience occurred.
Did it work for you?", looking for some sort of affirmation or answers indicating what it was, exactly, that they were supposed to be experiencing here, as the intended effect wasn't always apparent.
"The Bermondsey gallery is an affirmation of that.
