See what you want to see: motivational influences on visual perception.

By E. Balcetis, D. Dunning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006

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The goal construct in social psychology. (2007, background): “Recent research by Balcetis and Dunning (2006) has provided support for this notion.”
Adjusting the Warm-Glow Thermostat: How Incentivizing Participation in Voluntary Green Programs Moderates Their Impact on Service Satisfaction (2016, background): “For example, Balcetis and Dunning (2006) told study participants that they would be tasting orange juice (vs. an undesirable vegetable smoothie) if a computer program randomly assigned them a number (vs. a Adjusting the Warm-Glow Thermostat / 59 letter).”
The duality of virtue: Deconstructing the moral hypocrite. (2008, result): “When taken in combination with recent research demonstrating that both motivational states (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006) and chronic views regarding one’s abilities (Ehrlinger & Dunning, 2003) are capable of influencing low-level automatic processes, these findings suggest that chronic views of…”
PerCePtion in the serviCe of goAl Pursuit: motivAtion to AttAin goAls enhAnCes the PerCeived size of goAl-instrumentAl oBjeCts (2008, background): “Balcetis and Dunning (2006), for example, have recently demonstrated that people disambiguate a perceived ambiguous figure in the direction of their goals.”
The Contingent Nature of the Symbolic Associations of Visual Design Elements: The Case of Brand Logo Frames (2016, background): “Attentional biases due to motivated processing may lead individuals to emphasize either the positive (Alter and Balcetis 2011; Balcetis and Dunning 2006; Erdelyi 1974) or negative, potentially threatening, aspects of a stimulus (Ditto and Lopez 1992; Kunda 1990; Mata, Ferreira, and Sherman 2013).”
Goal Priming and the Affective-Motivational Route to Nonconscious Goal Pursuit (2008, background): “Balcetis and Dunning (2006), for example, have recently demonstrated that people disambiguate ambiguous figures in the direction of their goals: People see what they want to see.”
Cognitive Penetrability of Perception (2013, background): “Balcetis and Dunning (2006) performed a series of studies aimed at testing whether desires influence perceptual experience.26 In some of these studies, subjects were briefly exposed to an ambiguous figure and then asked to categorize the figure.”
Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought (2008, background): “Such dynamics may partly underlie classic biased assimilation effects (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979), although biased scanning (Greenwald, 1969) and wishful perception (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006) may also play a role.”
Wishful Seeing (2013, methodology): “They tended to identify it as a “B” when letters were associated with a desired outcome, such as drinking freshly squeezed orange juice, and numbers were associated with an undesirable outcome, such as drinking a noxious health-food smoothie (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006).”
The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review (2010, background): “Participants tended to report having seen the version that later would assign them to the favoured outcome (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006).”
Interpreting ambiguous stimuli: Separating perceptual and judgmental biases. (2008, background): “Consider, for example, the study by Balcetis and Dunning (2006).”
Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization (2017, background): “Mounting evidence supports the idea that social and motivational factors can alter aspects of visual processing such as the size of, or distance to, a target (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006; Bruner & Postman, 1949; Dunning & Balcetis, 2013; Proffitt, Stefanucci, Banton, & Epstein, 2003).”
Eyes as windows to the soul: Gazing behavior is related to personality (2012, background): “…and motivation (e.g., Furtner, Martini, & Sachse, 2011; Terburg, Hooiveld, Aarts, Kenemans, & van Honk, 2011), wishes, and preferences as it is directed toward goal-consistent and averted from goal-inconsistent stimuli to achieve and maintain good mood (Balcetis & Dunning, 2006; Isaacowitz, 2006).”