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wishful
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wishful ADJ

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Colloquially, however, it can also be used for a wishful second person imperative.
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Biases in judgment or decision-making can also result from motivation, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking.
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While wishful identification implies anything but an actual emulating action, the best nature of imitation is action.
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The outcome of valence effects may be called wishful thinking.
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Motivational explanations involve an effect of desire on belief, sometimes called wishful thinking.
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Furthermore, the research showed wishful identification with parasocial relationships, namely, that boys preferred intelligence, while girls preferred attractiveness when picking favorite characters.
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The hope is that this would lead to better decisions, not just the wishful thinking of populist spin.
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Finally, wishful thinking can arise at a higher stage of cognitive processing, such as when forming a response to the cue and inserting bias.
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Second, wishful thinking could be generated by selective interpretation of cues.
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The essence of wishful identification is media users desire, but imitation is not about peoples expectations, but modeling, either for identity or for behavior.
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