Sentence examples for inflated perception from inspiring English sources

Because this inflated perception is fuelled by the dislike of otherness and becomes a hysterical feedback loop, impervious to fact or logic.

This may explain Kahan's results, because those who have solid general scientific literacy may have an inflated perception of their understanding of climate science.

Thus, scientifically literate hierarchists may be more likely to let their biases influence their opinions on the causes of global warming because they have an inflated perception of their understanding the underlying science.

On the humor test, in which participants were asked to rate jokes according to their funniness (subjects' ratings were matched against those of an "expert" panel of professional comedians), low-scoring subjects were also more apt to have an inflated perception of their skill.

One may speculate that previous observations reporting decreased happiness among social media users may be associated with a widespread inflated perception of the happiness of one's friends.

In this study, the authors found that around half of the Americans have concordant status identity," while around one third have a "deflated perception" (self-rated status being lower than objective status) and about 17 % have an "inflated perception" (self-rated status being higher than objective status).

We find that there are substantial differences between Americans' subjective and objective social class: over two-thirds of the upper-middle class have a deflated perception of their class position, only half of the middle class have concordant perceptions, and more than a third of the working class have inflated perceptions.

Inflated perceptions of one's physical appearance is a manifestation of a general phenomenon psychologists call "self-enhancement". Researchers have shown that people overestimate the likelihood that they would engage in a desirable behavior, but are remarkably accurate when predicting the behavior of a stranger.

D.S writes: "I have long been annoyed by the absolute love affair the New York and national news media has with him - a love affair that has inflated the perception of how good a player Jeter is.... if he played his entire career in a place like Kansas City or Milwaukee, he would barely register on anyone's radar screen".

The failures not only inflated police perceptions of the scale of false allegations, but led to a loss of information about perpetrators and risked undermining the victim's credibility if she made a later report of rape, the report said.

A majority of people who voted for President Donald Trump consider criminal gang MS-13 a threat to the United States, a new poll finds, indicating the Trump administration may be succeeding in inflating the perception of the gang's national risk.