Sweet, guilty pleasures to watch, these discreet German versions of hard-core American real-life celebrity programs recall the early days of television, which introduced the widespread illusion of intimacy with stardom.
Europe's response to the crisis has been weak because there is still a widespread illusion on this side of the Atlantic that the crisis was "made in the USA" and that the recession is due to external factors such as U.S. subprime lending and global financial markets spinning out of control.
The fact that so many of hierarchy's problems show up in the form of individual misbehavior has led to one of the most widespread illusions in business, namely, that a company's managerial leadership can be significantly improved solely by doing psychotherapeutic work on the personalities and attitudes of its managers.
The received view of pitch therefore implies an error theory according to which pitch experience involves a widespread projective illusion.
Claims that a pro-Kremlin group funded a vast network of online activists to create the illusion of widespread support for Vladimir Putin may seem like a bizarre tale restricted to an authoritarian state.
EIS advertises their ability to create a "path to advocacy". In practical terms, this means EIS will create non-profit and fake grassroots groups to give the illusion of widespread public support for oil and gas drilling.
Most Americans have no illusions about just how "widespread" the problem is.
The mystique of late night — the illusion of effortless wit and widespread good will — is the one thing that sets these shows apart and keeps viewers in the habit of tuning in.
Many Haitians are not so sure: Le Nouvelliste, a newspaper, called the revised results "the end of the illusion of sovereignty", echoing a widespread sentiment that they reflect, mostly, their government buckling to international pressure.
Home Office research estimates that only around 3% of rape allegations are false, yet the illusion persists that false allegations are widespread, and men the real victims.
The widespread misuse of p-values — often creating the illusion of credible research — has become an embarrassment to several academic fields, including psychology and biomedicine, especially since Ioannidis began publishing critiques of the way modern research is conducted.
