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Are realistic appraisals being made?

Researchers in the US characterise those who have realistic appraisals of themselves as suffering from "depressive realism".

He continued to write, often changing the style and nature of his stories, sometimes producing internalised, psychological novels, sometimes more realistic appraisals.

The writers' suggestions that military might will prevail in this struggle are more elegies for an America-dominated past than realistic appraisals of the globalized present, in which diplomacy, education and travel are powerful arms for defending pluralism and democracy.

Catastrophic pain-related thoughts are challenged by formulating more realistic appraisals using cognitive restructuring techniques.

This suggests that in certain circumstances, self-affirmation may lead to more realistic appraisals of challenging targets.

Pre-negotiation analysis should include a realistic appraisal of one's BATNA.

"The one thing you're not hearing from the authorities is a kind of realistic appraisal," Mr. Timoney said.

Often it is a realistic appraisal of the situation, not fear, that makes people cut back on their spending.

In "Fighting Blind in Iraq" (Op-Ed, June 7), Barry R. Posen offers a terribly disturbing but persuasively realistic appraisal.

There may be no better place to get a realistic appraisal of biofuels than the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota.