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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Belief Formation"”.
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Belief Formation Through Family Storytelling: Implications for Family Therapy
… the influence family storytelling has on the formation and transference of beliefs. This study was a case study of one family who was identified as engaging in family storytelling. The participants were selected based on their participation in a 2004 pilot study, "A Phenomenological …
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An interdisciplinary approach to belief formation and resistance to change
… the most remarked on, and perplexing, aspects of beliefs is their resistance to change as discussed by researchers such as Frijda, Mesquita, Manstead and Bern, amongst others. This is especially the case for false beliefs. The thesis examines the many influences on belief formation in general, but …
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Essays on the Economics of Mental Illness and Belief Formation
… to the literature on the behavioral economics of belief formation. The first chapter studies why people who live in poverty are disproportionately affected by mental illness. Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Vikram Patel and I review the interdisciplinary evidence of the bidirectional causal …
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Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Mental Health and Belief Formation
… topics in mental health, decision-making, and belief formation. They leverage randomized experiments to evaluate the impact of three interventions, and new ``lab-in-the-field'' incentivized surveys and games to measure outcomes. The first chapter studies the effects of mindfulness meditation on …
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What Makes For Credible Religious Testimony? Exploring Belief And Skepticism About Others' Religious Experiences
This thesis examines the role of testimony in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs, focusing on the factors that influence its perceived credibility. Testimony is vital for sharing and reinforcing beliefs about experiences that cannot be directly tested, as is often the case with …
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Principal Self-Efficacy Beliefs: What Factors Matter?
Self-efficacy beliefs are evaluations people make about their capability to handle specific, future challenges. Self-efficacy belief levels predict actual success. Public school principals face ever-changing challenges. Understanding school principal self-efficacy beliefs and supporting the …
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The Debunking Project. Developing a Framework for the Scope and Requirements of Successful Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
… and the epistemological consequences of belief formation through natural selection, the dissertation provides a rigorous framework for assessing the scope and limits of EDAs. The work investigates key problems such as the "empirical input problem"—which questions the degree of …
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Mindfully Organizing Collective Teacher Efficacy: A Case Study Of Efficacious Educator Teams
… tasks. Characterized by the collective belief in the group’s capability to successfully accomplish tasks associated with their professional practice (Donohoo, 2018), what influences group efficacy belief formation remains an underdeveloped area of academic and practical understanding …
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A rational choice framework for collective behavior
… conditions: aligned utilities, accurate shared beliefs, and coordinated actions. However, achieving these conditions can be difficult, as evidenced by impossibility results related to each condition from the literature on social choice, belief aggregation, and distributed systems. The …
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Why Are Some Statistical Generalizations Epistemically Risky?
… encroachment theses. When the stakes of belief are high, so are the standards for evidence. This means that evidence which is sufficient in a low stakes-of-belief scenario may be insufficient when the stakes are raised. Simply, METs aim to appeal to the varying moral intuitions that one …
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The Truth Norm Account of Justification
This thesis is about the relationship between a belief being justified and it being true. It defends a version of the view that the fundamental point of having a justified belief is to have a true one. The particular version of that view it defends is the claim that belief is subject to a truth …
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Learning human beliefs with language models
Measuring explicitly expressed beliefs, whether stated on online platforms or captured in public opinion polls, can shed insight into present and future societal patterns of behavior. Mass media and social media both reflect and help form public opinion, which can ultimately lead to positive …
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Essays in Asset Pricing and Volatility Risk
… variables. In the third chapter (``From Private-Belief Formation to Aggregate-Vol Oscillation'') I propose a model that relies on learning and informational asymmetry, for the endogenous amplification of the conditional volatility in macro aggregates and of cross-sectional dispersion during …
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Tag based Bayesian latent class models for movies : economic theory reaches out to big data science
… to better understand consumer decision- making, belief formation and revision. While valuable, these approaches do not lend themselves to forming verifiable hypothesis for the critical reason that they by-pass an essential aspect of creative products: namely, that of novelty. In contrast, …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… effective at promoting this behaviour, whereas informational nudges have a limited impact. Finally, we find that political ideology is strongly correlated with subjects’ distancing choices. Instrumental variable (IV) analysis suggests that ideology in the US may be causally related to one’s …
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Experimental studies of the impact of emotional information on analogical reasoning
… how individuals interpret these events and form beliefs. Analogical reasoning is central to belief formation, as it allows people to draw inferences by connecting new information to existing knowledge. Examining the effect of emotion can provide insights into how distorted beliefs about the self, …
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The Effect of Ownership on Consumers' Disposal Decisions: Research on Food Wastage and Recycling Behaviors
Research in consumer behavior has focused predominantly on how consumers make purchase decisions. However, much less attention has been directed toward examining post-purchase behaviors. In this dissertation, I examine how ownership affects individuals' disposal decisions of their current …
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Approaches to Curricular and Co-Curricular Community Engagement with College Students: Building Relationships, Shifting Power, and Developing a Social Justice Mindset
… have a higher potential to irritate the beliefs that college students hold regarding their own power, privilege, understanding of social justice? This study takes a qualitative approach to the exploration of three groups of students representing curricular community engagement, …
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Essays on retail trading and credit cards
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01