Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: Validation of a French and English single-item scale [PDF]
, 2015 We designed, in French and in English, a single-item scale to measure people’s general tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. The validity and reliability of this scale was assessed in 3 studies (total N = 555).
Douglas, Karen M. +9 more
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Religious Studies, 1992 Of all the examples of ‘belief-in’, belief in God is both the most mysterious and the most challenging. Indeed whether and how an apologist can make a case for the intellectual respectability of theistic belief, depends upon the nature of this ‘belief-in’. I shall attempt to elucidate this matter by an analysis of the relation of ‘belief-in’ to ‘belief-
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Belief, reasons, and irrationality
, 2013 In this thesis, we explore the question: What is a belief? We do so by considering the folk psychological concept of belief and attempting to unearth some constitutive features of it.
Edwards, SA
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Contacting the spirits of the dead: paranormal belief and the teenage worldview [PDF]
, 2009 A number of previous studies have examined both the overall level of belief expressed by young people in the paranormal and the major demographic predictors of such belief.
Williams, Emyr, Francis, Leslie J.
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INTERSUBJECTIVE CONSISTENCY OF KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF [PDF]
We consider interactive epistemic models where individuals are described by both their ""knowledge"" and their ""beliefs."" Three intersubjective consistency conditions are examined: Intersubjective Caution (if an individual believes something to be ...
Giacomo Bonanno
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Belief formation and the persistence of biased beliefs
CoRR, 2023 40 pages, 16 ...
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Epistemological beliefs and classroom practices of experienced physics teachers: are they related?
Frontiers in EducationThere is a need in teacher education to explore experienced physics teachers' domain-general epistemological beliefs and classroom practices. The study reports 30 experienced physics teachers' epistemological beliefs and classroom practices in Turkish ...
Ozden Sengul
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Belief change in branching time: AGM-consistency and iterated revision [PDF]
We study belief change branching-time structures. First, we identify a property of branching-time frames that is equivalent to AGM-consistency, which is defined as follows. A frame is AGM-consistent if the partial belief revision function associated with
Giacomo Bonanno
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Preventive Behaviors of COVID-19 in the Iranian Adult Population during the Pandemic: The Integrated Effect of the Health Belief Model and the Planned Behavior Intention Using Causal Path Analysis [PDF]
Caspian Journal of Internal MedicineBackground: This study aimed to investigate the integration of the health belief model (HBM) and the theory of intention to plan preventive behavior for COVID-19 during the pandemic. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, a sample of 480 adult participants
Erfaneh Hajian-Tilaki +2 more
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Kur’an’ın Işığında Kader Konusuna Bakış
Umde Dini Tetkikler Dergisi, 2018 Kader konusu çok eski zamanlardan beri üzerinde tartışılan konulardan biridir. İlâhî dinler ve düşünce âlemi de dâhil olmak üzere, insanlık âlemi kader konusunda ikiye bölünmüştür; kaderi kabul edenler ve inkâr edenler. Bu araştırmada kader inancının Kur’
Abdullah Namlı
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