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Differential Correlates of Irrational Belief

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1985
One hundred and ten students completed a battery which included Jones' Irrational Belief Test (IBT), and measures of subjective well-being, affect, alienation, personality, goal characteristics, and goat attainment. Correlations and canonical composites showed a general relationship between irrational beliefs and emotional difficulty, but the specific ...
F W, Wicker, F C, Richardson, F B, Lambert   +2 more
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Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Needs

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
Studied the relationship between irrational beliefs and 15 psychological needs described by Murray. The Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) and the Adjective Check List (ACL) were administered to 46 high school students and 50 adults. Results of stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that five IBT scales and IBT Full-Scale were significantly ...
B D, Forman, S G, Forman
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Irrational action and irrational belief

Argumentation, 1988
Many philosophers agree with Socrates that it is not possible to perform an akratic action consciously and freely. They take this view because they assimilate the internal irrationality of such a performance to the internal irrationality of drawing a theoretical conclusion which contadicts one's premisses.
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Rationalizing Irrational Beliefs [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper, we re-examine various previous experimental studies of the Centipede Game in the literature. These experiments found that players rarely follow the subgame-perfect equilibrium strategies of the game, and various modifications to the game were proposed to explain the outcomes of the experiments.
Geoffrey Dunbar, Juan Tu, Ruqu Wang, Xiaoting Wang   +3 more
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Irrational Belief in God

2021
In Chap. 2 we saw how religious belief can, and often is, completely reasonable. I listed the main factors that make a great deal of religious belief rational.
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The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs

2020
Abstract Ideally, we would have beliefs that satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as fostering the acquisition, retention and use of other relevant information. In reality, we have limited cognitive capacities and are subject to motivational biases on an everyday basis, and may also experience impairments in perception, memory,
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An Embodied Simulation Model of Irrational Beliefs: Embodied Irrational Beliefs

2020
Thirty years ago, A. Ellis presented a revised ABC model. In this model, irrational beliefs (IBs) were considered as believing-emoting-behaving composite states. Consistent with A. Ellis’ proposals, in this chapter I describe embodied core IBs as embodied rigid motivational appraisals.
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Irrational beliefs and anxiety

Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1986
Samples of 451 (205 male and 246 female) and 189 (78 male and 111 female) introductory psychology students completed measures of irrational beliefs, trait anxiety, test anxiety, speech anxiety, fear of negative social evaluation, and social avoidance and distress.
Jerry L. Deffenbacher, Weare A. Zwemer, Mark A. Whisman, Robert A. Hill, Robin D. Sloan   +4 more
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Are there any irrational beliefs?

European Journal of Sociology, 1991
The purpose of this article is to argue that sociologists, anthropologists, and historians have no need to invoke the, or a, concept of rationality in order either to report or to explain the beliefs of the individuals or groups whom they study. I do not dispute that they may invoke it, or that a range of other purposes can be served thereby.
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The Impact of Irrational Beliefs on Paranoid Thoughts

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2018
Background:Although the ABC model proposed by cognitive behavioral theory has strong empirical support for a wide range of psychological problems, little is known about the role of irrational beliefs (IBs), a central concept of the ABC model, in the aetiology of paranoid thoughts, one of the most common psychotic symptoms.Aims:The present study aimed ...
Radu Soflau, Daniel O. David
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