Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: Distortions that emphasize parental self-comfort

Understanding parents’ behavior requires knowing (a) how far their processing of incoming information progressed (from perception through attribution and selection of a response to reflection), (b) what incoming information was given priority (cognition, affect, or both), and (c) the extent to which the information was transformed (from true through omitted-anddistorted to falsified).