They would twirl the emotional kaleidoscope until it gave them a picture that was comfortable.
From Washington Post article How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray by Shankar Vedantam on 31 July 2006, quoting Emory University psychologist Drew Westen [via, source]
You drop a coin into the sea and shout out, “Please come back to me”
...Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map