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While Islamic tradition focuses on the character of Noah, the Genesis Flood is entirely about God, about a new monotheistic construal of both divine judgment and the pro-human reversal of that judgment.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2014
One unfortunate consequence of this background shift is that as unbelief seems to more and more people the only plausible construal, they find it difficult to understand why anyone would adopt a different one.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2014
Our level of construal influences, in turn, how we evaluate a situation and how we ultimately choose to interact with it.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2013
In that movement, we change our construal, our representation of the world.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
She foresaw how the bad would misinterpret it, yet felt that she could afford to defy their incompetent construal.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
According to Lee Ross, we all fall victim to naïve realism — the conviction that even though others may fall victim to faulty construals, our own evaluations are completely objective.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2015
We, on the other hand, “cannot help but be aware that there are a number of different construals, views which intelligent, reasonably undeluded people, of good will, can and do disagree on.”
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2014
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