Translation of "Selektive wahrnehmung" in English

Selective perception may refer to any number of cognitive biases in psychology related to the way expectations affect perception.

Call it selective memory, or a short attention span but I only remember the good things.

The capacity of the recipient (selective perception) is limited.

The present risk assessment is distorted on the downside by the selective way of reporting and the perceptions which are thus created.

Or simply have selective perception guided by interests.

In the media, the selective perception of the victims is influential:

How does selective perception alter our notion of reality?

Today it is about selective perception and misunderstanding.

To report this fact alone would also be selective perception, but the message would be a completely different one.

I think it is very important that we make it clear that the horrific human rights violations such as those which we have seen and which we are seeing in Sierra Leone are a matter of concern to all Europeans because it is our understanding that human rights and human dignity are indivisible throughout the world and we will not tolerate a selective perception which results in our taking a closer interest in acts of violence in our own region than in the eruptions of violence which we have witnessed in Sierra Leone for several years now.

Lasse, Joey, Jamie and I were listening back to "Don't let me let you down" - and suddenly Bjorn is standing next to us, listening, tapping his foot and even complementing me on my drumming (that's probably only my selective memory, I'm sure the other three remember it differently!).

However this schizophrenic handling of sources came into being, whether it was the selective perception of an intellect tuned to a certain conclusion goal or simple sloppiness, the result is a historical revisionism which not only errs when evaluating the facts but already fails in the presentation thereof.

Add a hint of actual, respectable experiments like those by Anton Zeilinger about quantum entanglement in order to “prove” that stuff – which of course only works with a lot of “selective perception”; when you take a closer look with the required meticulousness, though, such “theories” easily fall down like a house of unentangled cards.

Wikipedia defines selective perception as a psychological phenomenon whereby only certain aspects of the environment are perceived while others are blanked out.

The surfeit of information calls for selective perception – this in turn hinges on the respectively personal interests.

But it always amazes practicing and aware raw foodists how young people in the medical field are often convinced by clichés and practice selective perception.

The so-called 'Active Light' principle from Zumtobel supports this selective perception with continuously changing dynamic lighting scenes.

It surely would be hard to investigate that properly in a scientific way – on the one hand, the test person or observer would not always notice such small things as ladybugs, on the other hand, they might know about this superstition, which would bring effects like self-fulfilling prophecies, placebo effects (and its opposite) and selective perception into play.

Comparing analyses produced by different social forces can provide important clues about their selective perception, the events they consider important, and the categories used to name or classify them.

This selective perception and ignorance of obvious environmental risks is not just a phenomenon of larger groups, but can also be seen at the level of individuals and small groups.

Coincidence and chance can refer in addition to formal ones and technical questions, then it concerns selective perception of the coincidental one led by the artistic »interest«.

Selective observation and selective memory are important factors in leading people to attribute any improvement in their symptoms to the treatment, even when the healer is a quack.

Selective in his enjoyment of modern technology, he never entered an aeroplane, would use a lift if no alternative existed (at the International Congress in Moscow he trudged up and down the interminable stairs of Stalin's skyscraper), and preferred to send his papers for publication written in his characteristically neat hand.

Incidentally, emotions are heightened when in an emotional state already, by only picking out the selective truth, which is why it is hoped that this does not spread psychological depression even further.