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When one systematically misperceives the positions of those of a supposedly different ideology, one may decide to oppose legislation or vote against a candidate with whom, on some issues of importance, one actually agrees.

How the conservative media harm democracy 2010

When one systematically misperceives the positions of those of a supposedly different ideology, one may decide to oppose legislation or vote against a candidate with whom, on some issues of importance, one actually agrees.

How the conservative media harm democracy Steven E. Levingston 2010

Moreover, she misperceives US interests as premised on undermining the clout of leftist leaders such as Chavez whom Zelaya had declared a friend, missing the point that the Honduran move has played directly into the hands of Chavez.

Vivien Lesnik Weisman: Opportunity For New Beginning In US/Latin American Relations Squandered 2009

This question misperceives the relationship between individual rights and the Constitution.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ted Olson, Law vs. Policy, and the Role of Courts vs. Counsel: 2009

The president's impromptu speaking style, which the far-right misperceives as somehow "stupid," is actually the president being thoughtful and prudent.

Bob Cesca: Why Does Obama's Teleprompter Hate America? 2009

Social psychologist Ralph K. White, Fearful Warriors, 1984, (who died last year at the age of 100), referring to Soviet American relations said, the "madness" that is carrying the world closer and closer to nuclear war has at its core a psychological explanation: Each side, though fundamentally afraid, misperceives the nature f the danger it faces.

Diane Perlman: Pressuring Iran: Self Fulfilling Paranoia and the Law of Opposites 2008

Because of a little-known but well-established fact that, as Professor Whitney puts it, “the human brain misperceives moving objects as shifting in the direction of their motion.”

McEnroe Vindicated? 2008

Are there times when Vincent misperceives both Alec and the boy, Shao-fei?

Heaven Lake by John Dalton: Questions 2004

But Greenberg's awareness of this tendency makes him see it everywhere, and so he utterly misperceives the film, which looks at the years when Bob Dylan was first the adored icon of the folk song armies and then the hated apostate.

Idiot Wind 2005

But Greenberg's awareness of this tendency makes him see it everywhere, and so he utterly misperceives the film, which looks at the years when Bob Dylan was first the adored icon of the folk song armies and then the hated apostate.

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