* Wishful thinking

* Wishful thinking

* Wishful thinking ( The formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine )

* Wishful thinking

* Wishful thinking

* Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence, rationality, or reality.

" Wishful thinking, if this were true, would rely upon appeals to emotion, and would also be a red herring.

Wishful thinking may cause blindness to unintended consequences.

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* Wishful thinking

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* Wishful thinking or optimism-We tend to want to see things in a positive light and this can distort our perception and thinking.

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The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species, North Point Press ( New York ), ISBN 0-86547-668-3, pp. 75 – 81.

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"' Wishful Thinking ' is a new lexicon, a dictionary for the restless believer, for the doubter, for anyone who wants to redefine or define more concretely those words that have become an integral part of our daily language — words that we use about God, the universe and, last but never least, humankind.

Here are also more songs about past loves ; his ex-wife Carrie Fisher says in her autobiography Wishful Drinking that the song " She Moves On " is about her.

The soundtrack also features " King of Wishful Thinking " by Go West, " Show Me Your Soul " by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, " No Explanation " by Peter Cetera, " Wild Women Do " by Natalie Cole and " Fallen " by Lauren Wood.

The 80s side included bands like Bloodbath, G Man, Wishful Thinking and Rumble Puppy.

She is also known for her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge and screenplay for a film of the same name, and her autobiographical one-woman play, Wishful Drinking.

Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play Wishful Drinking at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from November 7, 2006, to January 14, 2007.

Fisher published her autobiographical book, called Wishful Drinking based on her successful play in December 2008 and embarked on a media tour.

On October 4, 2009, Wishful Drinking then opened on Broadway in New York at Studio 54 and played an extended run until January 17, 2010.

In December 2009, Fisher's bestselling memoir Wishful Drinking earned her a nomination for a 2009 Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

In 2010, HBO aired a feature-length documentary based on a special live performance of Fisher's Wishful Drinking stage production.

She discussed her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking and various topics in it with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on December 10, 2008 and also revealed that she wishes she had turned down the role of Princess Leia.

" Nick Bracegirdle has also used the alias Sitvac to produce a one-time single, " Wishful Thinking.

Wishful Thinking and Other Philosophical Reflections.

In the meantime a remix album, Wishful Thinking, was released in November 1985.

The album was a Top 20 success in the UK, and China Crisis spent 1984 and 1985 making their biggest chart run, beginning with their only UK Top 10 hit single, " Wishful Thinking ", which peaked at No. 9.

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Originated by a set of principles developed by Dr. Max More, The Principles of Extropy, extropian thinking places strong emphasis on rational thinking and practical optimism.

The Path to Purpose presents Damon's vision of how schools and parents can help young people find elevated goals to dedicate themselves to, and it contains a critique of prevalent " short-horizons thinking " in today's culture that fosters cynicism and anxiety rather than inspiration and optimism.

In support of this view, critics cite instances of fraud, flawed studies, and cognitive biases ( such as clustering illusion, availability error, confirmation bias, illusion of control, magical thinking, and the bias blind spot ) as ways to explain parapsychological results.

Confirmation bias is of interest in the teaching of critical thinking, as the skill is misused if rigorous critical scrutiny is applied only to evidence challenging a preconceived idea but not to evidence supporting it.

Critical thinking includes identification of prejudice, bias, propaganda, self-deception, distortion, misinformation, etc.

The result of this is that all pupils should maintain their original thinking bias, as any other " thinking training " would carry a political favour.

In addition to being a cognitive bias and a poor way of making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a specific logical fallacy in an argument when it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false.

This leads to hindsight bias in the form of retroactive pessimism to inhibit upward counterfactual thinking, instead interpreting the outcome as succumbing to an inevitable fate.

The possible explanations include confirmation bias ( or our natural tendency to favor information to confirm our beliefs ), wishful thinking ( which is the act of making decisions based upon what is appealing rather than reasoned ), and retrofitting ( or retroactively refining the specifics of a prediction after the facts are revealed ).

His work suggested that pressures for conformity restrict the thinking of the group, bias its analysis, promote simplistic and stereotyped thinking, and stifle individual creative and independent thought.

Many medical professionals and psychologists attribute perceived anecdotal successes by medical intuitives to a combination of wishful thinking, confirmation bias, the placebo effect, and regression fallacy associated with self-limiting conditions.

Integrative thinking as devised by Roger Martin is open to the criticism that the theory was created using a non-scientific research approach ; by simply interviewing successful leaders, and positing a theory for their success, Martin and his colleagues may have been subject to a confirmation bias effect.

Albert and Hahnel argued that while those aspects of Marxist theory rejecting the institutions of private property and markets were well-founded, other aspects of Marxist and Marxist – Leninist doctrine, including its economistic bias, dialectical methodology, historical materialism, class concepts, labour theory of value, crises theory and rejection of visionary thinking, and authoritarian values and tendencies, were either partially or wholly flawed ; and often constituted obstacles in the struggle for social justice.

This example shows the bias in this type of thinking because both men had the same probability of winning if they had not sold their tickets and the time differences in which they did will not increase or decrease these chances.

For instance, the whole object bias could be explained as a strategy that humans use to reason about the world ; perhaps we are prone to thinking about our environment in terms of whole objects, and this strategy is not specific to the language domain.

The Court of Appeal held that dishonesty is an element of mens rea, clearly referring to a state of mind, and that overall, the test that must be applied is hybrid, but with a subjective bias which " looks into the mind " of the person concerned and establishes what he was thinking.

The blinding eliminates effects such as confirmation bias and wishful thinking that might occur if the samples were evaluated by someone who knew which samples were in which group.

Objective Elaboration: Bottom-up thinking in which facts are scrutinized without bias ; seeking truth wherever it might lead.

They show a lot of bias to Anglo-American tradition and way of thinking and are not easily transferable to other languages.