Subjective Validation
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June 19, 2009
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Subjective Validation The tendency to misread unfavourable or neutral evidence as giving positive support for one's beliefs. A process which occurs when two (or more) unrelated events are perceived to be related because a belief, expectancy, or hypothesis demands or requires a relationship.
See Carroll for an extended discussion of subjective validation. (see also: Forer (Barnum) effect, Belief perseverance, Selective exposure, Diagnosticity, Neutral-evidence principle, Confirmation bias) Back to: Glossary A-Z
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