Here's the paper if you don't have access to Cognition and are interested: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Following the link will also give you access to the data, code, surveys, etc.
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Here's the paper if you don't have access to Cognition and are interested: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Following the link will also give you access to the data, code, surveys, etc.
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A little side note: we found no evidence that identity expression and representing facts were anything but unimodally distributed. You might think beliefs either represent facts or don't. But, at least in this study, many occupied an intermediate space.
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@xphilosopher.bsky.social and I tried to study what beliefs do (or at least, what people think they do).
Across hundreds of participant generated beliefs and first/third party ratings, we found they express identity and/or represent facts, in the pattern described in this post.
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A little side note: we found no evidence that identity expression and representing facts were anything but unimodally distributed. You might think beliefs either represent facts or don't. But, at least in this study, many beliefs occupied an intermediate space.
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Since participants only rated one belief it was quick -- 8 evidence scales, 2-4 minutes.
In all honesty, we were surprised to see a robust two-factor solution. We had wondered whether the items might all load on the same factor!
Recently investigated what it means for a belief to represent identity with @xphilosopher.bsky.social. It's seemingly unrelated to whether the belief is subjective!
See where beliefs landed on identity (symbolic) and subjectivity: plotly.com/~m.meyer/6/
Here's the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...