A total of 104 children aged between 41 and 47 months were selected to study the relationship between language and false belief understanding. Participants were assigned to four different training conditions: discourse, labelling, control (all with deceptive objects), and sentential complements (involving non-deceptive objects). Post-test results showed an improvement in children's false belief...

Three experiments investigated belief-based versus analytic processing in transitive inference. Belief-based and analytic processing were inferred from conclusion acceptance rates for problems with conclusions that were either valid or invalid and believable or unbelievable. Premise integration difficulty was manipulated by varying premise integration time (Experiment 1), premise presentation o...

A syntactical and a semantical framework are proposed for the modeling of a hierarchical belief structure and of a message characterized by its content and status. For a given message, a multiplayer belief revision rule that transforms any initial belief structure into a &nal belief structure is designed. Several accuracy relations are introduced in order to express the formal conditions under ...

background: cardiovascular diseases refer to a group of diseases that affect the cardiovascular system principally cardiac diseases, vascular diseases of the brain and kidney and peripheral arterial diseases which are caused by various factors. considering the importance of nutrition education, especially the intake of fruits and vegetables, this study was performed to determine the effect of h...

background: according to who and unicef emphasison breastfeeding as an essential strategy in child growth and survival,nevertheless, there is a significant space in breastfeeding and whorecommendation in iran yet. this study aimed to assessing the effective factorsof breast feeding behavior based on health belief model constructs among womenin third trimester of pregnancy referee to health care...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...