Understanding how beliefs are formed and why they can be resistant to counter evidence is important in today’s polarized world, as views sharply diverge on issues ranging from vaccines to climate ...

Belief rule-based inference systems represent a powerful framework for reasoning under multiple forms of uncertainty in complex decision-making contexts. Grounded in a hybrid of rule-based expert ...

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. Our personal-level cognition and our relationships with others work in concert to shape our views of the world ...

What Makes a Belief Pathological? Since the start of this blog in 2014, Psych Unseen has focused on the psychology of false beliefs ranging from pathological delusions to a variety of “delusion-like ...

A new study published in the British Journal of Psychology has found that misinformation about climate change can reduce people’s perceptions of scientific consensus, which in turn tends to lower ...