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Plausibility matters: A challenge to Gilbert's "Spinozan" account of belief formation.
Cognition
March 2022
Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Most of the claims we encounter in real life can be assigned some degree of plausibility, even if they are new to us. On Gilbert's (1991) influential account of belief formation, whereby understanding a sentence implies representing it as true, all new propositions are initially accepted, before any assessment of their veracity. As a result, plausibility cannot have any role in initial belief formation on this account.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrigendum: The Effect of Analytic Cognitive Style on Credulity.
Front Psychol
June 2021
Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Bratislava, Slovakia.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Effect of Analytic Cognitive Style on Credulity.
Front Psychol
October 2020
Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Bratislava, Slovakia.
Belief in astrology remains strong even today, and one of the explanations why some people endorse paranormal explanations is the individual differences in analytical thinking. Therefore, the main aim of this paper was to determine the effects of priming an analytical or intuitive thinking style on the credulity of participants. In two experiments ( = 965), analytic thinking was induced and the source of fake profile (astrological reading vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectoral fortunes reverse, mindsets do not.
PLoS One
May 2019
Department of Anthropology and Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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- Conservatives and liberals show different tendencies in perceiving risks and benefits, with conservatives generally more inclined to view negative information as credible.
- These differences may stem from inherent cognitive biases linked to political orientation or could relate to the political dynamics at play, such as being in or out of power.
- Studies conducted after the 2016 U.S. elections indicate that conservatives still exhibit a significant association with negatively-biased credulity and conspiracism, regardless of their political power at the time.
Credibility, credulity, and redistribution.
Behav Brain Sci
January 2016
Human Cognition and Evolution Group,Associated Unit to IFISC (CSIC-UIB),Campus Carretera Valldemossa,07122 Palma de
After raising some doubts for cultural group selection as an explanation of prosocial religiosity, we propose an alternative that views it as a "greenbeard effect." We combine the dynamic constraints on the evolution of greenbeard effects with Iannaccone's (1994) account of strict sects. Our model shows that certain social conditions may foster credulity and prosociality.
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