The Cognitive Science of Belief

Introduction Joseph Sommer, Julien Musolino and Pernille Hemmer; Part I. Understanding Belief: 1. The cognitive science of 'belief' (the word) Ray Jackendoff; 2. The science of belief: a progress report Nicolas Porot and Eric Mandelbaum; 3. The role of context in belief evaluation: costs and benefits of irrational beliefs Elly Vintiadis and Lisa Bortolotti; 4. How and why does schematic knowledge affect memory? Qiong Zhang; 5. Probability, belief, and the richness of cognition Steve Piantadosi; 6. Intuitive and reflective beliefs Dan Sperber; 7. Intuitive and reflective beliefs in a modern world Bastien Tremoliere and Florence Lespiau; 8. Do cultural misbeliefs cause costly behavior? Hugo Mercier and Sacha Altay; 9. Cultural evolutionary psychology of belief Theiss Bendixen and Benjamin Grant Purzycki; Part II. Domains of Beliefs: 10. Religious beliefs Pascal Boyer; 11. Essentialist views of criminal behavior predict increased punitiveness Justin W. Martin, Sophie Charles, and Larisa Heiphetz; 12. Political belief formation: Individual differences and situational factors Lala Muradova and Kevin Arceneaux; 13: Americans' lack of political beliefs and the consequences for democracy Yalidy Matos and Katherine McCabe; 14. Thoughts and players: an introduction to old and new economic perspectives on beliefs Andras Molnar and George Loewenstein; 15. How intuitive beliefs inoculate us against scientific ones Andrew Shtulman; 16: COVID-19: conspiracies and collateral damage vs. constructive critique Stephan Lewandowsky, Konstantinos Armaos, Hendrik Bruns, Philipp Schmid, Dawn Liu Holford, Ulrike Hahn, Ahmed Al-Rawi, Sunita Sah, John Cook, Marie Juanchich and James Ladyman; 17. Believing in race vs. knowing ourselves Guy Harrison; Part III. Variation in Beliefs: 18. Delusions Philip R. Corlett; 19: delusions and beliefs as a symptom of illness Eisuke Sakakibara; 20. The elusive search for individual differences in myside thinking Keith E. Stanovich and Maggie E. Toplak; 21. Modeling individual differences in beliefs and opinions using thurstonian models Michael Lee and Michelle Y. Ke; 22. Belief in human rights: an opportunity for cross-cultural cognitive science Jordan Kiper; 23. The belief-action gap in environmental psychology: How wide? How irrational? Aurore Grandin, Melusine Boon-Falleur and Coralie Chevallier; 24. Training can improve decision making Irene Scopelliti; 25. Building better beliefs through actively open-minded thinking Emlen Metz.