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Religious beliefs are factual beliefs: Content does not correlate with context sensitivity
Published 2017“…Neil Van Leeuwen argues that religious beliefs are not factual beliefs: typically, at least, they are attitudes of a different type. …”
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The science of religious beliefs
Published 2008“…Why have humans, throughout history and across cultures, shown a strong tendency to believe in the existence of superhuman intentional agents and attached this belief to notions of morality, misfortune, and the creation of the world? …”
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Beliefs about gender
Published 2019“…We conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. …”
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Time, experience and belief
Published 2023“…This model uses sensory experience, and subsequent processed belief contents, to provide a notion of psychological time for these agents. …”
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On the viability of conspiratorial beliefs
Published 2016“…The model is also used to estimate the likelihood of claims from some commonly-held conspiratorial beliefs; these are namely that the moon-landings were faked, climate-change is a hoax, vaccination is dangerous and that a cure for cancer is being suppressed by vested interests. …”
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Belief revision normalized
Published 2024“…<p>We use the normality framework of Goodman and Salow (2018, 2021, 2023) to investigate of dynamics of rational belief. The guiding idea is that people are entitled to believe that their circumstances aren’t especially abnormal. …”
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The functional nature of conspiracy beliefs: Examining the underpinnings of belief in the Da Vinci Code conspiracy
Published 2011“…Focusing on a contemporary conspiracy theory popularized in the novel The Da Vinci Code (Brown, 2002), we examined the underlying psychological factors and individual differences that may predict belief in conspiracy theories, and assessed such beliefs' resistance to counterevidence. …”
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Parental beliefs about portion size, not children's own beliefs, predict child BMI
Published 2017“…Here, we explore the extent to which a child's BMI is predicted both by parental beliefs about their child's ideal and maximum portion size and/or by the child's own beliefs. …”
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Adolescents' and parents' future beliefs.
Published 2005“…We investigated how adolescents' and parents' future beliefs, i.e. their goals and probability estimations (regarding future career, social and family life) were (1) structured, (2) interrelated, and (3) whether adolescents' perceived family interaction mediated parents' and adolescents' beliefs, among 239 11-16-year olds and 197 parents. …”
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Moral worth and moral belief
Published 2022“…According to some, when you do the right thing, your moral beliefs make no difference to your act’s moral worth. …”
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Bad beliefs – a precis
Published 2022“…This brief paper sketches the main theses of my recent book Bad Beliefs. The book defends the view that human cognition is more evidence responsive than most psychologists and naturalistic philosophers think. …”
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Preferences and beliefs in ingroup favoritism.
Published 2015“…In particular, it is unclear to what extent ingroup favoritism is driven by preferences concerning the welfare of ingroup over outgroup members, vs. beliefs about the behavior of ingroup and outgroup members. …”
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