Questions tagged [belief]
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Experiment changing strongly held attitudes or beliefs
Has there been an experiment replicating the change of a strongly held belief or attitude in the psychology literature? I understand that this is an extremely difficult phenomenon to replicate, and ...
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Is “belief” in folk psychology just a sub-type of memory?
In folk psychology, we talk about beliefs. For instance, you can ask someone, why did you increase your investment in the stock market? He may say, well, I believe that the stock market will likely go ...
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Is losing faith the same with learned helplessness?
According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of Lose Faith In is:
to no longer believe that (someone or something) can be trusted
For example: lost faith in government, in love, in humanity, in ...
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Probability distribution for a random variable related to self-assignment of a person's degree of belief
I am not a psychologist or neuroscientist. I am a mathematician wondering about how a person normally evaluate its own degree of belief in a given proposition.
Suppose a person X is given a question ...
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Why do people believe what they believe?
What is the basis or sequence of events that leads to someone believing something is true. Is there a framework that can be used to understand how people develop belief? How do they go about doing it?
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Which area of psychology studies false beliefs?
Imagine a person has some false beliefs, which are also reflected then in his actions:
I don't want to interact with people because I don't trust them and 90% of time they will betray me
If I form ...
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Why do human beings double down on their perspective?
I am coming at this thinking about two different situations.
Those in political parties digging in their heels and doubling down on their beliefs.
Friends or relationship partners standing their ...
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After which age humans stop acquiring new beliefs?
After which age, humans stop acquiring new reasoning?
For instance, suppose Mr. 'X' believes that
capitalism is good, communism is evil or vice versa
a specific religion is good, all other religions ...
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Using rationalisations to fit your specific, unconscious beliefs - how is that process called?
Introdution:
Sometimes we build our reasoning and decisions on more or less rational reasoning which consists of logical steps of thought. Let's say, it basically follows this path: problem >> ...
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Is there any source to study about common belief system?
Occasionally I hear my friends who have psychological disorders complain that healthy people don't understand what they feel. Therefore they prefer to be supported by someone who also has ...
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Why can't emotion perception “win” our own belief and bias to judge the situation accurately?
Cognitive distortions and negative emtions
According to Wikipedia, "cognitive distortion are thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately". It is a negative outlook on ...
