The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

AI chatbots could be effective in eroding people's beliefs in conspiracy theories, suggests a new study that used ChatGPT to counter them with fact-checked information. The conventional understanding ...

When we think about a person who believes one or multiple conspiracy theories, we tend to think of someone with relatively stable and fixed beliefs. In the public imagination, this is one of the ...

What Makes a Belief Pathological? Since the start of this blog in 2014, Psych Unseen has focused on the psychology of false beliefs ranging from pathological delusions to a variety of “delusion-like ...

Supernatural beliefs have long shaped how people interact with nature. A study from Doshisha University used evolutionary game theory to explore whether fear of supernatural punishment can deter ...

Roughly half of Americans subscribe to to some sort of conspiracy theory, and their fellow humans haven't had much success coaxing them out of their rabbit holes. Perhaps they could learn a thing or ...

Imprecise probability theory provides a robust alternative to traditional probability by representing uncertainty through ranges or sets of values rather than single numerical estimates. This ...

Each belief a person holds is related to their other beliefs, as well as to perceived and actual beliefs of people around them. In a paper in Psychological Review, Jonas Dalege, Mirta Galesic, and ...