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Belief Change without Compactness
CLEI Electronic Journal, 2021 Dealing with dynamics is a vital problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI). An intelligent system should be able to perceive and interact with its environment to perform its tasks satisfactorily.
Jandson S Ribeiro
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Neural correlates of belief change in political and non-political domains among left-wing individuals confronted with counterarguments [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis preregistered study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying resistance to belief change among individuals with strong left-wing orientations, examining both political and non-political domains.
Małgorzata Kossowska +5 more
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Fear motivates and dread stalls: the role of emotions in climate support [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAs the negative impacts of rapidly accelerating climate change increase in frequency and severity, widespread climate action in the population becomes increasingly urgent.
Sarah Gradidge +7 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 In recent years, the UK has become divided along two key dimensions: party affiliation and Brexit position. We explored how division along these two dimensions interacts with the correction of political misinformation.
Toby Prike +4 more
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Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 In the ‘post-truth era’, political fact-checking has become an issue of considerable significance. A recent study in the context of the 2016 US election found that fact-checks of statements by Donald Trump changed participants' beliefs about those ...
Michael J. Aird +4 more
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Correlates of belief in climate change: Demographics, ideology and belief systems
Acta Psychologica, 2022 This paper reports on two studies that examine correlates of attitudes to climate change (ACC). In the first study, five hundred participants completed five questionnaires and an intelligence test as well as two related measures of ACC.
Adrian Furnham, Charlotte Robinson
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Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 Why people do or do not change their beliefs has been a long-standing puzzle. Sometimes people hold onto false beliefs despite ample contradictory evidence; sometimes they change their beliefs without sufficient reason. Here, we propose that the utility of a belief is derived from the potential outcomes associated with holding it.
Tali Sharot +3 more
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Probability, coherent belief and coherent belief changes [PDF]
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2019 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
John Cantwell, Hans Rott
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Risk attitude and belief updating: theory and experiment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Despite the importance of risk attitude in decision-making, its role in belief updating has been overlooked. Using economic theory, we analyzed a dual-self equilibrium where an individual first updates her belief about an uncertain state and then takes ...
Evelyn Y. H. Huang, Benson Tsz Kin Leung
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Belief Change as Propositional Update [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 1997 This study examines the problem of belief revision, defined as deciding which of several initially accepted sentences to disbelieve, when new information presents a logical inconsistency with the initial set. In the first three experiments, the initial sentence set included a conditional sentence, a non‐conditional (ground) sentence, and an inferred ...
Pelletier, Francis J., Elio, Renée
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