How Mental Systems Believe¶
Gilbert, D. T. (1991). How Mental Systems Believe. American Psychologist, 107-119.
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Primes¶
- Belief Formation
- Belief formation has characteristic inputs (perceptual evidence, testimony, prior beliefs, motivational pressures, social context), characteristic mechanisms (Bayesian-style updating, sudden conversion, gradual accommodation, imitation, motivated assent), and characteristic failure modes (confirmation bias, source-credulity errors, motivated reasoning, conformity-driven assent without evidence), a structure Gilbert (1991) made vivid in his Spinozan demonstration that comprehension itself produces tentative belief that must be effortfully undone rather than effortfully constructed.
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The abstract carries the Spinozan proposition only: comprehension itself yields acceptance, undone later and effortfully; it says nothing of the inputs, mechanisms, or failure modes listed.
“the acceptance of an idea is part of the automatic comprehension of that idea and (b) the rejection of an idea occurs subsequent to, and more effortfully than, its acceptance”
- Belief formation has characteristic inputs (perceptual evidence, testimony, prior beliefs, motivational pressures, social context), characteristic mechanisms (Bayesian-style updating, sudden conversion, gradual accommodation, imitation, motivated assent), and characteristic failure modes (confirmation bias, source-credulity errors, motivated reasoning, conformity-driven assent without evidence), a structure Gilbert (1991) made vivid in his Spinozan demonstration that comprehension itself produces tentative belief that must be effortfully undone rather than effortfully constructed.
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