Religious belief system from an Islamic perspective by Hj. Yaakub, Muhamadul Bakir

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The algebra of multi-agent dynamic belief revision by Baltag, A, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

“…We show how our setting can be applied to a cheating version of the muddy children puzzle where by using this logic, after the cheating happens, honest children will not get contradictory beliefs..</p>…”

Beliefs and attitudes during pregnancy and post natally by van den Akker, O, Redshaw, M

The effects of recursive communication dynamics on belief updating by Pescetelli, N, Yeung, N

“…Many social interactions are characterized by dynamic interplay, such that individuals exert reciprocal influence over each other's behaviours and beliefs. The present study investigated how the dynamics of reciprocal influence affect individual beliefs in a social context, over and above the information communicated in an interaction. …”

Raising children in accordance with unorthodox religious beliefs by Taylor, R

Global histories of science: practice, belief, and materials by Lidwell-Durnin, J

Review of: Needham, Rodney: Belief, Language and Experience by Crick, M

Freedom of religion or belief - the quest for religious autonomy by Kiviorg, M

“…In this thesis it is argued that while the concept of freedom of religion or belief itself is opaque and difficult to define, the right to religious freedom must contain certain basic factors – most importantly the right to individual (religious) autonomy. …”

Three essays on information and political belief change by Lewis, A

“…In <strong>One Fact, Two Beliefs (Article 1)</strong>, I tackle head on the question of how responsive misperceptions are to disconfirming information, presenting a novel context in which to evaluate not only whether but also how people update their beliefs in response to new evidence. …”

Bayesian Models, Delusional Beliefs, and Epistemic Possibilities by Parrott, M

“…Recent theorists have appealed to Bayesianism to help explain both why a subject with the Capgras delusion adopts this delusional belief and why it persists despite counter-evidence. …”

The 'post-' age of belief: Wither or whither Christianity? by Anderson, P

Cognitive ability and socio-political beliefs and attitudes by Carl, N

“…<p>The contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate the importance of cognitive ability (and psychometric traits in general) for understanding the distribution of socio-political beliefs and attitudes within society. For at least the past hundred years, sociologists have sought to explain social phenomena primarily, or indeed exclusively, with reference to social structures that can be considered as external to the individual. …”

Should informed consent be based on rational beliefs? by Savulescu, J, Momeyer, R

“…We argue that consent should not only be informed but also based on rational beliefs. We argue that holding true beliefs promotes autonomy. …”

Religion beyond belief, shamanism beyond religion by Giraldo Herrera, C

“…Following a longstanding Christian missionary tradition (Douglas 1984), early anthropologists classified some perplexing non-Western understandings of reality as “religious beliefs” and related practices as rituals. Michael Bull’s and Jon Mitchell’s edited volume: Ritual, Performance and the Senses revise Durkheimian and Turnerian understanding of ritual as the means of transmission of religion, processes in which participants develop an aroused sense of belonging to a community and are highly receptive to symbolism, allowing them to share beliefs. …”

Impacting prospective teachers' beliefs about mathematics by Shilling-Traina, L, Stylianides, G

“…Activities creating cognitive conflict, as well as the implementation of instruction valuing group collaboration and explanations, appear to have played important roles in the process of belief change. The findings have implications for research on teacher beliefs and teacher education. © 2012 FIZ Karlsruhe.…”

Assumptions and beliefs in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their mothers. by Cooper, M, Galbraith, M, Drinkwater, J

“…All participants completed a measure of assumptions and negative self-beliefs related to eating disorders. Adolescents with anorexia nervosa scored more highly on all subscales of the measure than nonclinical adolescent controls. …”

The Importance of Religious Displays for Belief Acquisition and Secularization by Lanman, J

A general framework for updating belief distributions by Holmes, C, Bissiri, P, Walker, S

“…We argue that a valid update of a prior belief distribution to a posterior can be made for parameters which are connected to observations through a loss function rather than the traditional likelihood function, which is recovered as a special case.…”

Complexly based beliefs and the generality problem for reliabilism by Baker-Hytch, M

Caregiving and illness beliefs in the course of psychotic illness. by Onwumere, J, Kuipers, E, Bebbington, P, Dunn, G, Fowler, D, Freeman, D, Watson, P, Garety, P

“…This study investigates associations between caregiving appraisals in psychosis, distress, and 3 key illness beliefs (consequences, cure-control, and timeline), and whether illness beliefs makes a contribution to the relation between negative caregiving appraisal and distress. …”