Download or read book Belief Change written by Eduardo Fermé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the logic of theory change employs formal models in the investigation of changes in belief states and databases. The topics covered include equivalent characterizations of AGM operations, extended representations of the belief states, change operators not included in the original framework, iterated change, applications of the model, its connections with other formal frameworks, and criticism of the model.
Download or read book Resistance to Belief Change written by Joseph R. Lao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the human proclivity to resist changing our beliefs. Drawing on psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, and integrating topics as wide ranging as emotion, cognition, social (and physical) context, and learning theory, Lao and Young explore why this resistance to change impedes our learning and progression. They also suggest that failure to adapt our beliefs to available and informed evidence can incur costs that may be seen in personal growth, politics, science, law, medicine, education, and business. Resistance to Belief Change explores the various manifestations of resistance, including overt, discursive, and especially inertial forms of resistance. As well as the influential factors that can impact upon them, the book also examines how the self-directed learner, as well as teachers, may structure the learning experience to overcome resistance and facilitate progressive and adaptive learning. Lao and Young find that the impediments to learning and resistance to change are far more prevalent and costly than previously suggested in research, and so this book will be of interest to a range of people in cognitive development, social psychology, and clinical and educational psychology.
Download or read book Cognitive Mechanisms of Belief Change written by Aaron C. T. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief change lies at the heart of all human aspirations. From career progression, weight loss, spiritual commitment, and ideological passion, to love, grief, war, identity, and sport, beliefs guide our lives and to a great extent, determine our success, satisfaction and happiness. Cognitive Mechanisms of Belief Change is relevant to anyone interested in the machinations of how this occurs. It explains how certain ideas and concepts steal a place in the mind because they latch on to hardwired ways of thinking, experiencing, and behaving. Concepts throw light upon the mind’s desires, which in turn casts a kaleidoscope of silhouettes against the walls of thought, with those taking distinct shape forging the outlines for beliefs to inhabit. Beliefs infiltrate our minds, and this book shows how they arrive and change in ways critical to our sense of meaning and identity.
Download or read book How Minds Change written by David McRaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2022 Porchlight Marketing and Sales Book of the Year A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant—by the bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation. When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone’s mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own. But then a diehard 9/11 Truther’s conversion blew up his theories—inspiring him to ask not just how to persuade, but why we believe, from the eye of the beholder. Delving into the latest research of psychologists and neuroscientists, HOW MINDS CHANGE explores the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing. Told with McRaney’s trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it’s an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California—that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy? An expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative, HOW MINDS CHANGE reaches surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, to demonstrate the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change.
Download or read book Working with Chakras for Belief Change written by Nikki Gresham-Record and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use therapy tool for transforming unhelpful belief patterns and envisioning positive change • Identifies 28 beliefs per chakra that can be energetically realigned using the Healing InSight Method • Offers a tool set of therapeutic processes, affirmations, visualization, and bodywork for the practical application of the transformational belief realignment method • Includes 56 full-color, high-vibration chakra images, one for each main chakra as well as 7 additional empowering images for each chakra • Paperback with lay flat binding Working with Chakras for Belief Change transforms people’s unhelpful beliefs through clearing their chakras, raising their vibrations, and creating a fertile space for the New to come in. The Healing InSight Method presented in this practical full-color book is based on affirmations used together with individual chakra work and specific bodywork exercises, including techniques drawn from kinesiology, qigong, whole-brain integration, visualization, and infinity symbol exercises. Psychologist and energy therapist Nikki Gresham-Record channeled 28 common beliefs for each chakra, 196 total, which can be fully realigned using this transformational system of complete mind-body-spirit healing. The author organizes the beliefs around the chakra system and explains how unhealthy beliefs can take root within the chakras and the body. She shows how her belief realignment method is capable of changing beliefs and their associated vibrations in the subconscious mind and energy body, thus enabling any blocks to dissolve and your system to open up to the opportunity for change. The 56 high-vibration chakra images included in this book can be used as a tool for therapeutic guidance as well as for positive manifestation. Each chakra is represented by a main chakra image along with 7 chakra aspect images, affirming potent qualities that we are all able to access when balanced and in harmony within ourselves. The artistry of the chakra images offers an immersion in the vibration of the empowering chakra-related beliefs and aids energetic resonance to help people feel good and begin healing. Also offering case studies and a life-review process to help the reader take stock of their situation before and after they begin the Healing InSight Method, Working with Chakras for Belief Change provides a gentle, energetic, yet potentially life-changing tool for personal growth and development.
Download or read book Changes of Mind written by Neil Tennant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of how a rational agent should revise beliefs in the light of new evidence. Computationally implementable, it provides rigorous mathematical theory of dependency networks and investigates the complexity of algorithms for rational agents revising beliefs.
Download or read book Belief Change written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal foundations. It deals with the addition, deletion and combination of pieces of information and, more generally, with the revision, updating and fusion of knowledge bases. The book offers an extensive coverage of, and seeks to reconcile, two traditions in the kinematics of belief that often ignore each other - the symbolic and the numerical (often probabilistic) approaches. Moreover, the work encompasses both revision and fusion problems, even though these two are also commonly investigated by different communities. Finally, the book presents the numerical view of belief change, beyond the probabilistic framework, covering such approaches as possibility theory, belief functions and convex gambles. The work thus presents a unified view of belief change operators, drawing from a widely scattered literature embracing philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, uncertainty modelling and database systems. The material is a clearly organised guide to the literature on the dynamics of epistemic states, knowledge bases and uncertain information, suitable for scholars and graduate students familiar with applied logic, knowledge representation and uncertain reasoning.
Download or read book Descriptor Revision written by Sven Ove Hansson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as objects of choice is critically examined. Descriptors are introduced as a versatile tool for expressing the success conditions of belief change, addressing both local and global descriptor revision. The book presents dynamic descriptors such as Ramsey descriptors that convey how an agent’s beliefs tend to be changed in response to different inputs. It also explores sentential revision and demonstrates how local and global operations of revision by a sentence can be derived as a special case of descriptor revision. Lastly, the book examines revocation, a generalization of contraction in which a specified sentence is removed in a process that may possibly also involve the addition of some new information to the belief set.
Download or read book The Belief Principle written by Steven Aitchison and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to be happier? Would you like to be making more money? Would you like to have better relationships? Would you like a better job? Do you want to start your own business? Do you want to feel more fulfilled? Most of us want all of the above and there's only ONE thing stopping us from having all these things and more... OUR BELIEFS Our personal beliefs either move us forward in life or hold us back. The older we get the more our beliefs hold us back. In this amazing book author, speaker and online trainer Steven Aitchison will guide you through the maze of your mind to show you just how much influence your beliefs have in your life. With the help of this book, you are going to go on a journey. On this journey, you are going to discover a lot about yourself. You're going to find out beliefs held by you that are not even your own; some of them are literally hundreds of years old. You are going to uncover seven beliefs that will quite literally change the course of your life forever, should you wish to install them. Another big discovery you are going to make is something called The Belief Ceiling and the Fiat Principle, which is your beliefs surrounding money. Changing this one belief could literally change how much income you bring into your life. You'll also discover two words that you and every human being on the planet uses that are responsible for EVERYTHING you have ever achieved and failed at in your life. Another huge discovery you'll make is the Deep Soul Feeling Method, which is a unique way to install new beliefs using a powerful mantra and an easy to follow process. If you take action, here is what you can expect to gain from this book: Bring more money into your life. More happiness in all areas of your life. Renewed energy and hope that you really can create a life carved out by you. A high feeling of self worth. The freedom that comes from finding your purpose. Take back control of your life. Know, for certain, that you are capable of anything. You will find your inner courage. More joy A drastic increase in confidence. A new understanding of relationships and how to create stronger, empowering relationships in your life. Never, ever, ever settle for second best again. A sense of fulfilment Increase your focus and concentration to get more things done. KNOW that you are enough.
Download or read book Beyond Belief written by Johannes M. Luetz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: • Context: past, present, and future prospects• Theory: concepts, narratives, and theoretical frameworks• Practice: empirical research and praxis-informed case examples• Doctrine: scriptural contributions and perspectives• Engagement: enlisting religious stakeholders and constituencies Comprising peer-reviewed works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across Oceania, the book closes a critical gap in the literature and represents a groundbreaking contribution to holistic climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands Region that is scientifically sound, spiritually attuned, locally meaningful, and contextually compelling.
Download or read book Change Choice and Inference written by Hans Rott and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work develops logical theories necessary to understand adaptable human reasoning & the design ofintelligent systems. It unifies lively & significant strands of research in logic, philosophy, economics & artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Atomic Habits written by James Clear and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.
Download or read book Change One Belief Inspirational Stories of How Changing Just One Belief Can Transform Your Life written by Bob Burnham and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How close are you to Being, Doing and Having everything you want in life? Bob Burnham asked this question and the answer that always came back to him is One Thought Away. Our lives always go in the direction of our thoughts. So all as we have to do is change our thoughts. Sounds easy right? Here's the problem! We think our thoughts over and over again until they become a belief and then even our truth. This does not serve our highest good in truly living the life we want to live. We may buy into our beliefs so deeply we think they're real but in fact they are all made up and are just thoughts. In most cases we've inherited our thoughts and beliefs from parents, coaches, teachers and even TV. We've bought into these beliefs and thoughts so deeply some of us will even die for them. Does that give you a sense of how powerful beliefs can be? That power is an illusion and is only fuelled by our thoughts-which we have the power to change in one moment. In this life-changing book you'll discover how: Putting action behind his new belief lights up the darkest period of Lorenzo Lamas's life. Being proactive about her new belief transformed Vanna White's biggest career error into her new role as America's Sweetheart. What was once a shameful secret for Jeannie Trasolini became a catalyst for others to find the courage to look for their own lost children. Taking the plunge to invest in herself propelled Lisa Sasevich, the Queen Of Sales Conversion, to make millions of dollars per year sharing her blessings with the world. Getting dumped on national TV became the impetus to help Tammi Baliszewski, Ph.D and other women find true authentic love. Challenging actor Robert Calvert's biggest fear gave his audience their biggest laughs. A limiting belief about weight was transformed by internationally-known healer Ann Taylor into a life of love, support and connection. After being stuck in an abusive relationship, Kathy Kovacs, one of Canada's favorite sports anchors, finds freedom in a new life on her own terms. And over 30 more stories along with a special Belief Change Tools section! This extraordinary book is life-changing. It shows you how to unlock more of your true potential than you ever thought possible. Brian Tracy, Author, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Change One Belief is a wakeup call for everyone - a challenge to take a look at our own lives and ask the difficult and freeing questions. Annette Elton, Author and Ghostwriter of over 30 books Don't let your beliefs stop you! Get Change One Belief now, believe in yourself, follow your heart, live your dreams and start creating the life you were born to live. Jim Donovan, Author, This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal Authors: Bob Burnham, Jeff McCallum, Rosemary Sneeringer and Kathryn Bartman
Download or read book Change They Can t Believe In written by Christopher S. Parker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movements Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can’t Believe In offers an alternative argument—that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party’s recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election.
Download or read book A Logical Theory of Nonmonotonic Inference and Belief Change written by Alexander Bochman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that integrates nonmonotonic reasoning and belief change into a single framework from an artificial intelligence logic point-of-view. The approach to both these subjects is based on a powerful notion of an epistemic state that subsumes both existing models for nonmonotonic inference and current models for belief change. Many results and constructions in the book are completely new and have not appeared earlier in the literature.
Download or read book Belief Re patterning written by Suze Casey and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of beating yourself up for not living what you know to be true? Ready to light your passions and let them fuel your dreams and desires? What if you could reset old thought patterns, "flipping the switch" without thinking about it? What if there was an autopilot option for positive thinking? There is, and you can access it through Belief Re-patterning! Solidly based in cognitive learning theory, educational psychology, and years of observation, this proactive technique developed by author and teacher Suze Casey rebuilds neural pathways and connections, allowing you to think, act, and feel differently. You didn’t arrive with an owner’s manual for your mind; and neither did your parents, friends, or children. Well, Belief Re-patterningcan be just what you’re looking for—full of activities that acknowledge your Inner Critic, strengthen your Inner Coach, and ignite your inner motivation. You’re going to have a conversation with yourself; it might as well be compassionate, encouraging, conscious, supportive, purposeful, and authentic! In this book, you’ll discover guaranteed ways to quickly, and almost effortlessly, get back on track when life’s stressors have pulled you off.
Download or read book Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science written by Erik J Olsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief revision theory and philosophy of science both aspire to shed light on the dynamics of knowledge – on how our view of the world changes (typically) in the light of new evidence. Yet these two areas of research have long seemed strangely detached from each other, as witnessed by the small number of cross-references and researchers working in both domains. One may speculate as to what has brought about this surprising, and perhaps unfortunate, state of affairs. One factor may be that while belief revision theory has traditionally been pursued in a bottom- up manner, focusing on the endeavors of single inquirers, philosophers of science, inspired by logical empiricism, have tended to be more interested in science as a multi-agent or agent-independent phenomenon.
