The cognitive science of belief : a multidisciplinary approach

The cognitive science of belief : a multidisciplinary approach /

"Beliefs play a central role in our lives. They lie at the heart of what makes us human, they shape the organization and functioning of our minds, they define the boundaries of our culture, and they guide our motivation and behavior. Given their central importance, researchers across a number o...

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Other Authors: Musolino, Julien (Editor), Sommer, Joseph (Psychologist) (Editor), Hemmer, Pernille (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Belief and doubt.
Belief and doubt > Social aspects.
Cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a cognitive science of belief / Joseph Sommer, Julien Musolino and Pernille Hemmer
  • Part I: Understanding belief
  • Philosophical and linguistic approaches to beliefs
  • Cognitive science of 'belief' (the word) / Ray Jackendoff
  • Science of belief: a progress report / Nicolas Porot and Eric Mandelbaum
  • Role of context in belief evaluation: costs and benefits of irrational beliefs / Elly Vintiadis and Lisa Bortolotti
  • Models of optimal beliefs
  • How and why does schematic knowledge affect memory? / Qiong Zhang
  • Probability, belief, and the richness of cognition / Steve Piantadosi
  • Implicit vs explicit beliefs
  • Intuitive and reflective beliefs / Dan Sperber
  • Intuitive and reflective beliefs in a modern world / Bastien Trémolière and Florence Lespiau
  • Evolutionary psychology of beliefs
  • Do cultural misbeliefs cause costly behavior? / Hugo Mercier and Sacha Altay
  • Cultural evolutionary psychology of belief / Theiss Bendixen and Benjamin Grant Purzycki
  • Part II: Domains of beliefs
  • Religion and morality
  • Religious beliefs / Pascal Boyer
  • Essentialist views of criminal behavior predict increased punitiveness / Justin W. Martin, Sophie Charles, and Larisa Heiphetz
  • Economics and politics
  • Political belief formation: Individual differences and situational factors / Lala Muradova and Kevin Arceneaux
  • Americans' lack of political beliefs and the consequences for democracy / Yalidy Matos and Katherine McCabe
  • Thoughts and players: an introduction to old and new economic perspectives on beliefs / Andras Molnar and George Loewenstein
  • science and race
  • How intuitive beliefs inoculate us against scientific ones / Andrew Shtulman
  • COVID-19: conspiracies and collateral damage vs. constructive critique / Stephan Lewandowsky, Konstantinos Armaos, Hendrik Bruns, Philipp Schmid, Dawn Liu Holford, Ulrike Hahn, Ahmed Al-Rawi, Sunita Sah, John Cook, Marie Juanchich and James Ladyman
  • Believing in race vs. knowing ourselves / Guy Harrison
  • Part III: Variation in beliefs
  • Pathological beliefs
  • Delusions / Philip R. Corlett
  • Delusions and beliefs as a symptom of illness / Eisuke Sakakibara
  • Individual differences in beliefs
  • Elusive search for individual differences in myside thinking / Keith E. Stanovich and Maggie E. Toplak
  • Modeling individual differences in beliefs and opinions using Thurstonian models / Michael D. Lee and Michelle Y. Ke
  • Environmental effects on beliefs
  • Belief in human rights: an opportunity for cross-cultural cognitive science / Jordan Kiper
  • Belief-action gap in environmental psychology: How wide? How irrational? / Aurore Grandin, Mélusine Boon-Falleur and Coralie Chevallier
  • Toward better beliefs
  • Training can improve decision making / Irene Scopelliti;
  • Building better beliefs through actively open-minded thinking / Emlen Metz.

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