It's what psychologists call idealization and denial.

If you take the satellite readings but cherry pick only those that provide evidence for your claim, that's called 'denial'.

The result was a tie as far as anyone can tell; to assert otherwise is what psychologists call denial.

In psychiatric terms this was called denial.

This fall he got an exploratory call from a Fox executive, to which he reacted with what he called "shock and denial."

I rejected what she had said and ceased processing input, passing into a state that the shrinks call profound denial.

He had gone through what the psychologist called the normal stages of adjustment: denial, anger, bargaining with God, grief, and resignation.

I do have bad dreams about the big one, an actual nuclear explosion, but I practice what psychiatrists call healthy denial.

First of all there is the inevitable sense of shock, what psychologists call denial: 'This thing hasn't happened to me, it can't be true.'

You could call it denial.