In turn, those changes disconfirm the theory of the first agent, and perhaps still other agents.

Only behaviours that disconfirm expectancies are truly informative about an actor.

I'm trying to disconfirm a report.

Although it is easier to disconfirm a hypothesis than to establish one, disconfirmations are much less likely to be deemed newsworthy.

An integrative life review provides individuals with the opportunity to examine events in their lives that may disconfirm negative self-evaluations associated with depression.

He added, "It's the root of prejudice: you become increasingly convinced of your bias in the absence of the chance to disconfirm your beliefs."

Oppositively, Cimrman stated that in the beginning of every learning process, our knowledge is formed by a mistake, which is precise, and we must disconfirm it.

New information combined with the lack of acceptable influence of past reality-based memories can disconfirm behaviour and delusional belief, which typify in patients suffering from schizophrenia.

If some version of this hypothesis were true, it could explain how and why human beings differ from their nearest relatives, and it would disconfirm the competing evolutionary hypotheses that are being pursued.

Individuals may disconfirm global, negative evaluations of the self that are associated with depression and begin to develop a more realistic, adaptive view of the self that incorporates both positive and negative attributes.

An example they employ to illustrate this point is that, if one knows that Tom's position on a baseball team is that of a pitcher, no fact that one discovers about his behavior or accomplishments as a player will disconfirm one's belief that he is a pitcher.

Dr. Richard Suzman, who is chief of the demography and population epidemiology branch of the National Institute on Aging, said, "It's an elegant study, and I think it's going to set off a gold rush of research looking for other samples to confirm or disconfirm these results."