Great phrases in psychological writing
    For Introduction and Discussion Sections
  1. These findings fit with a larger body of research that suggests...
  2. How do people deal with invalid information? Research shows that... (Gilbert, 1991)
  3. We initiated this research with the hypothesis that... However, there are at least two other possible explanations for the finding that...(Frank & Gilovich, 1988)
  4. According to some theorists, the answer is by definition no... (Gilbert, 1991).
  5. Wegner et al.'s (1985) extension of the Ross et al. (1975) study suggested... (Gilbert, 1991)
  6. It is important to note that in each of the aforementioned studies... (Gilbert, 1991)
  7. Researchers who have investigated the ways in which human beings entertain "mere possibilities" have documented a robust tendency for people to seek information that confirms possibilities. (Gilbert, 1991)
  8. If people seek confirmatory evidence because they embrace the hypotheses they are testing... (Gilbert, 1991)
  9. The foregoing review of research on human belief attests to the truth of Bain's dictum... (Gilbert, 1991)
  10. Yet, even if one endorses the Spinozan hypothesis, there is no denying... (Gilbert, 1991)
  11. If we understand words of love as we see the gloss of dark water, then we may thinkingly reject the reality of either. But only after we have first accepted them as so. (Gilbert, 1991)
  12. In recent years there has been considerable attention and debate on the question of whether... (Padilla et al., 1991)
  13. It is an occasion of the historic and the temporal, the panoramic and the telescopic, the collective and the individual (Smith & Bottoms, 1984)
  14. This is a lively, intelligent, compelling and adventurous anthology... (Hecht, 1984)
  15. Anthologists all too often succumb to occupational hazards of bait, of received taste, and even language. Nothing is so safe as to characterize poet X as "one of the best of her generation", a locution cloudy enough to seem like praise without committing the anthologist to anything firm (Hecht, 1984).
  16. If there is the danger of tedium in simply reproducing the choices of others, there is another and more curious peril in at least some attempts at originality (Hecht, 1984).
  17. So the nervous anthologist must make his way between the pitfalls of bland orthodoxy and possibly misguisded enthusiasms--unless, as in the present case, the anthology is the work of very careful and judicious poets who not only know their craft but their fellow poets as well (Hecht, 1984)
  18. And therein lies the daring as well as the impressiveness of... (Hecht, 1984)
  19. Not so long ago it was held ruinous to the poetic sensibility, to the very life of the imagination, for a poet to hold a teaching position... (Hecht, 1984)
  20. There is perhaps a further point that might be made about these poets... (Hecht, 1984)
  21. These poets, like their elders, may not feel altogether comfortable in one another's company... (Hecht, 1984)
  22. The reader of this volume will undoubtedly wonder... (Williams, 1963)
  23. Poetry is made up of two elements, langage and vision... (Williams, 1984)
  24. It is not just a matter of comparing a good poem by Wordsworth with a bad one by Gray. The poetic diction... (Williams, 1984)
  25. Tennyson commands the second half of the nineteenth century as Wordsworth does the first... (Williams, 1984)
  26. It has often been said of Tennyson that... (Williams, 1984)
  27. Studies such as these should not be taken as merely...
  28. Probably, as so and so says, the amount of...
  29. No doubt it is...
  30. The influence of Eliot and Pound upon modern British poetry has been enormous, but that of the homespun American poets very slight (Williams, 1984)
  31. The great difference between [this study] and [that study] was that the first enlarged... while the second narrowed...
  32. There remains the necessary word that must be said about who's in and who's out (Williams, 1984)
  33. There are exceptions to this rule, like the very considerable (Williams, 1984)
  34. The characteristic poet of the twentieth century is the acknowledged legislator of a class of bored university students (Williams, 1984)
    For Results Sections
  1. In addition to these results, the design of the study makes it possible to test for the effect of...(Frank & Gilovich, 1988)
  2. Although there is the faintest suggestion of a tendency for...(Frank & Gilovich, 1988)