"The process of screening out information that does not interest us and retaining information that does (
)."
1.
Wells, William, Burnett, John and Moriarty, Sandra:
"The process of screening out information that does not interest us and
retaining information that does (
)."
2.
Foxall, Gordon R. and Goldsmith, Ronald E.:
"Selective perception means that, to some extent at least, people have
the ability to see and hear what they choose to see and hear, to screen
out messages they do not wish to attend to, be influenced by, or even consider
( 
)."
3.
Pace, R. Wayne, Peterson, Brent D. and Burnett, M. Dallas:
"A great principle of human behavior is that people tend to selectively
perceive messages and to respond to those that are consistent with their
self-concepts. We sometimes call this process circularity-believing
something about ourselves, then looking for evidence from our observations
of people and events to support the belief
( 
)."