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Oaksford M. Bayes versus bias in human reasoning. Nat Hum Behav 2024:10.1038/s41562-024-01823-w. [PMID: 38424256 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01823-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Mandelbaum E, Porot N. How the Cognitive Science of Belief Can Transform the Study of Mental Health. JAMA Psychiatry 2023; 80:8-9. [PMID: 36350609 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
This Viewpoint highlights how new insights into belief acquisition, storage, and change can transform our understanding of psychiatric disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eric Mandelbaum
- The Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY, New York, New York
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- Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences, UM6P, Rabat, Morocco
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This paper develops the claim that epistemic feelings are affective experiences. To establish some diagnostic criteria, characteristic features of affective experiences are outlined: valence and arousal. Then, in order to pave the way for showing that epistemic feelings have said features, an initial challenge coming from introspection is addressed. Next, the paper turns to empirical findings showing that we can observe physiological and behavioural proxies for valence and arousal in epistemic tasks that typically rely on epistemic feelings. Finally, it is argued that the affective properties do not only correlate with epistemic feelings but that we, in fact, capitalise on these affective properties to perform the epistemic tasks. In other words: the affective properties in question constitute epistemic feelings.
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- Slawa Loev
- Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
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