The relationships between child-rearing beliefs and preschoolers’ mathematical readiness in Singapore by Goh, Wan Ping

“…The main goal of the current study is to gain a better understanding of the nature of parents’ child-rearing beliefs and their implications on children’s readiness for school mathematics in Singapore. …”
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Would you pay for transparently useless advice? A test of boundaries of beliefs in the folly of predictions by Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Yohanes, Eko Riyanto

“…Standard economic models assume that the demand for expert predictions arises only under the conditions in which individuals are uncertain about the underlying process generating the data and there is a strong belief that past performances predict future performances. …”
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Two-and-a-half-year-olds succeed at a traditional false-belief task with reduced processing demands by Setoh, Peipei, Scott, Rose M., Baillargeon, Renée

“…When tested with traditional false-belief tasks, which require answering a standard question about the likely behavior of an agent with a false belief, children perform below chance until age 4 y or later. …”
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Disciplining differences : Christian teachers in the secular school. by Lee, Theresa Ruishan.

“…This paper argues against the prevalent assumption that omitting and obscuring one’s faith is a form of suppression.Teachers have a belief that such manifestations can be negative and thus they actively engage in discipline work and inadvertently, are complicit in perpetuating the religious-secular divide.…”
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Between being and becoming a Buendía : the dilemma in one hundred years of solitude. by Lye, Kit Ying.

“…Derek Attridge states Derrida’s belief that “Literary theory, or poetics, has always consciously worked under the sign of philosophy” in his introduction to Acts of Literature, arguing for a possible and creative welding of two different fields of studies (3). …”
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Effects of passive cooperation and neutral prompts on preschoolers’ flexibility. by Ong, Jing Yi.

“…Additionally, the affective scales on mood and motivation, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Fourth Edition, the Standard Dimensional Change Card sorting task, and the content false belief task were used as controls. The results showed that there were no significant effects of either passive cooperation or neutral prompts on flexibility. …”
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Working out masculinity : negation of effeminacy by homosexuals through a muscular body. by Lim, Andrew Sze Khew.

“…Gay men with their sexual orientation towards the same sex thus deviates from the heteronormative matrix, leading to the belief that they are lesser of a man, and more effeminate compared to heterosexual men. …”
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An investigation on the influence of friends in information cascade - experimental evidence in laboratories. by Lim, Wei Jie., Yap, Wan Yi., Yeo, Yee Teng.

“…Possible explanations may be due to the increase in uncertainty and randomness in one’s private signals and the belief that strangers may have additional information which is not accessible to friends within similar network surroundings.…”
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Endearing Empress Cixi : re-empowering Asian identities and re-evaluating western ideologies in Dick Lee’s "Forbidden city : portrait of an empress". by Ho, Terence Kin Wai.

“…It will also highlight Lee’s attempts in employing Empress Cixi’s sensitivity to restructure the traditional perceptions and prejudices of the Empress, so as to re-empower and reinstate a pride and belief in an Asian identity that is not subservient to the ideologies of the West.…”
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Sources of work-family balance self-efficacy in emerging adults by Tan, Tessa Chen Xi

“…Work-family balance self-efficacy (WFBSE) is our belief in our own ability to successfully balance both work and family roles (Basuil & Casper, 2012). …”
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Revolutionary no more : the disempowering effect of marriage on classic literary heroines. by Chia, Valerie Ying En.

“…This thesis contends, however, that contrary to popular interpretation and belief, not all three heroines are truly rewarded, as Pamela famously considers herself to be, by their radical class-crossing marriages. …”
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Equality and inequality in Confucianism by Li, Chenyang

“…Numerical equality is founded in the Mencian belief that every person is born with the same moral potential and the Xunzian notion that all people have the same xing and the same potential for moral cultivation. …”
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Mapping Drugs across Epistemic and Geographic Domains: A case study for Early Medieval China by Stanley-Baker, Michael, Ho, Brent Ho-leung

“…It’s a long-held cultural belief that Daoists 道士, or more specifically, transcendents 仙人, were among the primary stakeholders in the early Chinese drug market. …”
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English in contemporary Sweden : perceptions, policies, and narrated practices by Bolton, Kingsley, Meierkord, Christiane

“…However, despite the strong belief in the utility of English widely held in Sweden, the Swedish language is the preferred language of Swedes as well as immigrants in most domains. …”
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Role of mental state explanations in children’s theory of mind development. by Chee, Yu Yan.

“…In the guided role-play condition, pre-schoolers received feedback and guidance from trainers who encouraged them to provide psychological explanations to false belief situations. In the non-guided condition, pre-schoolers did not receive any active guidance from the trainers. …”
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Collective de se thoughts and centered worlds by Liao, Shen-yi

“…The first looks at thoughts that are attributable to collectives, such as bands’ beliefs and teams’ desires. So far, philosophers who have written on collective belief, collective intentionality, etc. have primarily focused on third-personal attributions of thoughts to collectives. …”
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Rethinking Jean Baudrillard's simulacres et simulation in Christopher Nolan's memento and the prestige by Ahmad Naufal Amirza

“…In spite of the inherent disjunction between the postmodern and the Victorian setting of The Prestige, it only seeks to reaffirm the belief that “the loss of historicity is a distinctive trait of the postmodern” (Gallego 44) and that postmodernist thinkers do not particularly believe in historicity. …”
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Caring for family members with 'Mental Illness' in Singapore. by Nurliyana Binte Daros.

“…Drawing on in-depth interview data, this study explores lay beliefs of ‘mental illness’ in the Asian context of Singapore wherein deeply-rooted ethnocultural/religious beliefs influence coping and help-seeking behaviour. …”
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The Christian sociological imagination : dominant-subordinate magisteria in sociological ambivalence by Lee, Tommy Kevin Ke Wei

“…The research illustrates the varying intellectual and emotional coping mechanisms of the subjects and found the degree of personal clarity of religious beliefs (i.e. the ability to distinguish among core beliefs, secondary beliefs and church teachings) and the degree of academic knowledge to be two likely indicators for response selection on the DOSMA.…”
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Guilty as charged? An exploratory study of premarital sexual activity and Christian young adults in Singapore by Gan, Daphne Rui Qi

“…Social science research has continually produced the singular theme of an inverse relationship between premarital sexual behaviour and the intensity of Christian religious beliefs. However, this paper proposes that besides a solely inverse relationship, there exist neutral and positive correlations between the two factors. …”
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