Examples of use of misperceive
1. Those in Washington who assume threat of cutoff of US aid would elicit greater effort from Pakistan evidently misperceive Pakistan’s motives as mercenary.
2. Gvosdev cautioned that many middle–class Russians and midlevel Russian officials are suspicious of American motives and misperceive U.S. advice on the economy and democracy as intended to weaken Russia.
3. "For example, a bipolar subject, during a manic episode, may invest in a risky business proposition either because they misperceive the risk to be lower than it actually is, or because they accurately perceive the risk to be high but may have impaired learning, attentional, working memory or choice processes," the researchers wrote.