Sentence examples for inflated perceptions from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, because caregivers' reports may reflect subjective worries that may lead to inflated perceptions of a child's health, our analysis also controls for the caregiver's self-assessed level of happiness on a ten-point Likert scale (Vanore, 2015) and for the quality of the child-caregiver relationship, as reported by the caregiver (Jordan & Graham, 2012).

If, however, these recommendations are based on inflated perceptions of benefit, it would raise some concern.

In reference to this latter point, it is important to correct any inflated perceptions of smoking prevalence in Georgian youth as well as develop messaging strategies to reduce the social acceptability of smoking in this population.

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).

Normative feedback involves information about how a specific reference group actually consumes in order to correct adolescents' "inflated perception" [ 21] and of the amount the reference group typically consumes.

In a study almost a decade ago, women under 50 had a greatly inflated perception of the absolute risk (20 times) of dying from cancer over 10 years, and the absolute risk reduction (over 120 times) derived from screening.