Wishful Seeing: How Preferences Shape Visual Perception

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-37

  Dunning, David ^a   Balcetis, Emily ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; distance perception; motivation; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872822350     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412463693     Document Type: Review

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