Belief and Counterfactuality

belief function and the transferable belief model

Beliefs are the result of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is because of a random process and sometimes the result of lack of information. In the past, the only solution in situations of uncertainty has been the probability theory. But the past few decades, various theories of other variables and systems are put forward for the systems with no adequate and accurate information. One of these a...

Belief and Degrees of Belief

Theory of Mind (ToM) and counterfactuality deficits in schizophrenia: misperception or misinterpretation?

BACKGROUND Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer another person's mental state based upon interactional information. ToM deficits have been suggested to underlie crucial aspects of social interaction failure in disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, although the development of paradigms for demonstrating such deficits remains an ongoing area of research. Recent studies have e...

Personality, Christian belief and paranormal belief 1 Running head: Personality, Christian belief and paranormal belief Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief: A study among teenagers

A sample of 10,851 pupils (5,493 males and 5,358 females) attending year-nine classes (13to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9,494 pupils (4,787 males and 4,707 females) attending yearten classes (14to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief, alo...

Propositional belief merging and belief negotiation model

We propose in this paper a new family of belief merging operators, that is based on a game between sources : Until a coherent set of sources is reached, at each round a contest is organized to find out the weakest sources, then those sources has to concede (weaken their point of view). This idea leads to numerous new interesting operators (depending of the exact meaning of “weakest” and “conced...