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LAW OF DISREGARD OF NEGATIVE INFORMATION

Facts that fit into a preconceived hypothesis attract attention, are singled out and remembered. Facts that are contrary to it are disregarded, treated as an exception and forgotten.


Alexander Luria (Russian Neurologist) quoted in R. Levi-Montalcini's In Praise of Imperfection, New York, Basic Books, 1988.



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