Sentence examples for correct the misperception from inspiring English sources

The theory, pioneered by Claude Steele, suggests that, when people feel their sense of self threatened by the outside world, they are strongly motivated to correct the misperception, be it by reasoning away the inconsistency or by modifying their behavior.

Implementing these measures, the signers say, will correct "the misperception that the United States does not welcome international students, scholars and scientists".

Once again, rotating some internal nodes (Fig. 14b) can help to correct the misperception that other living primates are ancestors of humans or offshoots of a main line leading to humans or of incorrectly assuming that the left- or bottom-most tip represents an ancestor to those at the terminal nodes of the other branches.

We need to correct the misperception that the fight to restore self-government is a liberals-only cause.

(Pathways itself plays on TIME's headline by coopting the "mom enough" phrase: "Jamie Grumet Mom Enough Too Speak Out for Attachment Parenting").. Lori Dorman, the photographer who shot the family for Pathways, says in the magazine: "My goal was to correct the misperception that was created on the TIME cover.

The most effective ways to improve doctors' reporting rate may be to correct the misperception and modify the attitude to disease reporting such as perceived reluctance to violate patient's privacy.

In his speech, Mr. Obama tried to correct the misperceptions and he spoke about Indonesia's ability to bridge religious and racial divides.

Viet Dinh, a former Justice Department official who drafted the Patriot Act, said that Mr. Ashcroft's agenda would be "to correct the misperceptions that are out there and to disabuse the American public of the misinformation they've gotten".

"Our role is to correct the misperceptions," Sheik Zafzaf said of Al Azhar, whose leader, or grand imam, is appointed to a lifetime term by Egypt's president, a partnership that is spelled out in the Constitution.

Why do so many marketing people assume that truth is on their side, that their job is to use truth as a weapon to correct the misperceptions that exist in the mind of the prospect?

After having been a member of the security community for more than 15 years, I understand that healthy skepticism and speculation towards worst-case scenarios are an important part of the security discipline; however, we felt, in this case, it was necessary to correct the misperceptions.