percepting

Now there's a thought ... is there something about fiction (not the scary parts, not those powerfully evocative scenes), that alters our very way of percepting reality -- at a level more subtle and difficult to identify?

Self-Protection 2009

Polls and scientistical research show that this blinders prevent humans from percepting facts that would contradict their convictions.

Needless exaggeration « BuzzMachine 2005