Beliefs

What do you believe? The answer is likely to be 'more than you realize'. We understand and manage the world around us through our beliefs, which may not be perfect, but which are largely useful.

Changing minds very often means changing beliefs, which means the persuader should gain a good understanding of what these are, how they are formed and how they get changed.

Articles on belief include:

What Is Belief?: Gives a simple definition.

Adaptive Beliefs: Beliefs that can change.

Beliefs About People: Very much affect how we interact with them.

Belief, Faith and Commitment: The effects of particular belief.

Care-Behavior Matrix: How different beliefs lead to different interpersonal behaviors.

The Confidence Trap: Too much belief can be bad for you.

Denialism: Choosing to avoid the truth.

Doublethink: Orwell's holding of contradictory beliefs.

Ellis' Irrational Beliefs: Dysfunctional beliefs that many of us hold.

Enabling Beliefs: Beliefs that help you.

Health Belief Model: A useful model from healthcare work.

Language in Belief: The language we speak changes what we believe.

Limiting Beliefs: Beliefs which constrain us.

Kahler's Drivers: I must be perfect, strong, etc.

Sacred Beliefs: Which can never be contradicted.

The Decay of Belief: How beliefs fade and change.

The Formation of Belief: Describes how we find our beliefs.

The Need for Belief: We have an internal driver to believe.

The Samson Principle: Building and breaking beliefs.

Three-Stage Belief Change: A method used by cults and others.

Tolerance and Action in Belief: How tolerant we are of other beliefs.

Two Types of Truth: Empirical and Convenient.

Types of Belief: Classifies the sorts of things we believe in.

Strengths of Beliefs: Discusses strong, weak and blind beliefs.

Superstition: Beliefs that drive rituals.

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