The verdicts, which condemned Japan's six wartime leaders to death, were "based on a poorly constructed" perception of history, said Inada Tomomi, a close colleague of Mr Abe.
I realized that he was a man, and like all men, he had (as Dr. Steven Novella put it), "a distorted and constructed perception, both of which are subservient to whatever narrative [his] brain is operating under".
The first three express three different dimensions on which to construct perception of technology on the part of the consumer: riskiness, utility and the human possibility of controlling processes.
To make the severity and likelihood scores comparable, the severity score was first divided by 2. To normalize the skewed distribution of the constructed risk perception variable, a square-root transformation was performed, which resulted in a measure of risk perception on a scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high) (14 ).
The results of hypothesis testing identified some important predictors of U.S. consumers' purchase intention for green sportswear; however, two constructs (perception and expectation) generated different results by two different consumer groups (non-green product users vs. green product users).
This tool consists of 15 items divided into four constructs; perception of faculty, study support, students' satisfaction with social life, and financial support.
Basic to all these assumptions and intuitions, which here have been grouped together under the name "empiricism," is the idea that knowledge is constructed out of perception and perception alone.
Personal experiences construct the perception of each person regarding the school and this perception may influence their cognitive, social and psychological development (Haynes et al., 1997).
Because these cells seemingly had no communication with the parts of the brain responsible for forming visual images, scientists had not investigated the extent to which they might be involved in constructing our perception of the world around us.
Indeed, like most classic westerns, The Big Country not only supplies audiences with a glimpse into a period of American history, it constructs our perception of that period.
Although there has been much research on the role of perceived risk as a determinant of behaviour, how individuals construct their perception of risk and the extent to which it directly influences behaviour remains unclear [ 28- 30].
