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it is wishful thinking
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As invoked in everyday life, the law usually reflects bad statistics or wishful thinking rather than any mathematical principle.
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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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Unfortunately, the authors find, this is no more than wishful thinking.
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Second, wishful thinking could be generated by selective interpretation of cues.
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Lack of snowfall during this time, along with insufficient funds, made this mostly wishful thinking.
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Wishful seeing can be attributed to the same mechanisms as wishful thinking because it involves the processing of situational cues, including visual cues.
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The phenomenon of wishful seeing implicates cognitive penetrability in the perceptual experience.
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Lane admits that this was wishful thinking, since all of his failed relationships have ended on bad terms.
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However, this statement may only be wishful thinking, considering how little attention the government is paying to airsoft activities.
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The word is combined with "suanpan" abacus in the expression "ruyi suanpan" wishful thinking; smug calculations.
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