Changing One's Mind: Self-Conscious Belief and Rational Endorsement

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Leite
Keyword(s):  
Conscious Belief

A history of the struggle against racism in the social unconscious of group analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 053331642098473
Author(s):  
Dick Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
Group Analysis ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Unconscious Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Unconscious ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conscious Belief

Institutional racism is a social unconscious process. It is the collective operation of shared unconscious assumptions and values that exist in groupings and cultures such as group analytic institutions where individuals may consciously believe they are not racist. In such cultures this conscious belief is protected by unconscious processes of denial, avoidance and negation. Attempts to address the issue within group analysis reveal some of its problematic dynamics.

EXPRESS: Behavioral evidence of altered sensory attenuation in obesity

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110657
Author(s):  
Federica Scarpina ◽  
Carlotta Fossataro ◽  
Alice Rossi Sebastiano ◽  
Francesca Bruni ◽  
Massimo Scacchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Body Ownership ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Attenuation Effect ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Control Framework ◽  
Sensory Attenuation ◽  
Behavioral Evidence ◽  
Conscious Belief

Body ownership (i.e., the conscious belief of owning a body) and sense of agency (i.e., being the agent of one’s own movements) are part of a pre-reflective experience of bodily self, which grounds on low-level complex sensory–motor processes. While previous literature had already investigated body ownership in obesity, sense of agency was never explored. Here, we exploited the sensory attenuation effect (i.e., an implicit marker of the sense of agency; SA effect) to investigate whether the sense of agency was altered in a sample of eighteen individuals affected by obesity as compared with eighteen healthy-weight individuals. In our experiment, participants were asked to rate the perceived intensity of self-generated and other-generated tactile stimuli. Healthy-weight individuals showed a significantly greater SA effect than participants affected by obesity. Indeed, while healthy-weight participants perceived self-generated stimuli as significantly less intense as compared to externally generated ones, this difference between stimuli was not reported by affected participants. Our results relative to the SA effect pinpointed an altered sense of agency in obesity. We discussed this finding within the motor control framework with reference to obesity. We encouraged future research to further explore such effect and its role in shaping the clinical features of obesity.

Self‐Conscious Belief

1999 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Anthony O'Hear
Keyword(s):  
Conscious Belief

No Epistemic Norm or Aim Needed

Episteme ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Norm ◽  
Conscious Belief

Abstract Many agree that one cannot consciously form a belief just because one wants to. And many also agree this is a puzzling component of our conscious belief-forming processes. I will look at three views on how to make sense of this puzzle and show that they all fail in some way. I then offer a simpler explanation that avoids all the pitfalls of those views, which is based instead on an analysis of our conscious reasoning combined with a commonly accepted account of the concept of belief. I conclude that no epistemic norm or aim is actually needed to explain why we cannot deliberatively believe whatever we want.

scholarly journals Moore-paradoxical belief, conscious belief and the epistemic Ramsey test

Synthese ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 188 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Ramsey Test ◽  
Conscious Belief

scholarly journals Moore’s Paradoxes and Conscious Belief*

2006 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Nicholas Williams
Keyword(s):  
Conscious Belief

“Superstition” in the Collegiate Baseball Player

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ciborowski
Keyword(s):  
Baseball Player ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Superstitious Belief ◽  
Collegiate Baseball ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
High Level ◽  
Conscious Belief

An investigation of superstitious activity among collegiate baseball players (n = 83) was conducted over the course of three full seasons. A major feature of the investigation was a distinction between behaviors mediated by a conscious belief, and behaviors (presumably nonmediated) established through simple contiguity. Additionally, the baseball players were compared to nonathletes (n = 348) on a variety of traditional indicators of superstitious belief, but the comparison yielded few significant differences. Although the investigation showed that the ballplayers engaged in a high level of superstitious activity, it was concluded that such activity is unremarkable, if not understandable.

The (mis)management of agency: Conscious belief and nonconscious self-control

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 532-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Randolph-Seng
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Positive Illusions ◽  
Conscious Belief

AbstractMcKay & Dennett (M&D) identify positive illusions as fulfilling the criteria for an adaptive misbelief, but could there be other types of beliefs that may qualify as adaptive misbeliefs? My commentary addresses this and other questions through identifying belief in free will as a potential candidate as an adaptive misbelief.

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