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  2. Belief perseverance - Wikipedia

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    Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism [1]) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it. [ 2 ] Since rationality involves conceptual flexibility, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] belief perseverance is consistent with the view that human beings act at times in an irrational manner.

  3. Sociology of culture - Wikipedia

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    Durkheim held the belief that culture has many relationships to society which include: Logical – Power over individuals belongs to certain cultural categories, and beliefs such as in God. Functional – Certain rites and myths create and build up social order by having more people create strong beliefs. The greater the number of people who ...

  4. Extreme Overvalued Beliefs - Wikipedia

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    While extreme overvalued beliefs are shared by individuals of the same culture and/or subculture, [1] this is not true of delusions. A delusion is an inherently false belief that is not shared by anyone else, while an extreme overvalued belief is shared by others and can become more dominant over time.

  5. Social conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Social conditioning is directly related to the particular culture that one is involved in. In You May Ask Yourself, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at New York University, states that "culture affects us. It's transmitted to us through different processes, with socialization—our internalization of society's values, beliefs and norms ...

  6. Social conservatism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reagan appealed to social conservatives who felt marginalized by the growing liberalization of American culture, calling on the "forgotten man" or "moral majority". [60] [61] After the tumultuous period of political and cultural changes in the 1960s–1970s, Reagan's moderate traditionalism appeared as a source of needed stability for many ...

  7. Belief - Wikipedia

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    It states that partial beliefs are basic and that full beliefs are to be conceived as partial beliefs above a certain threshold: for example, every belief above 0.9 is a full belief. [ 24 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Defenders of a primitive notion of full belief, on the other hand, have tried to explain partial beliefs as full beliefs about probabilities ...

  8. Why pop culture’s love of Joan of Arc endures - AOL

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    Her pop culture inspiration has lasted across the decades. In 1997, a now-iconic photoshoot featuring Fiona Apple captured by Joe McNally shows the indie pop artist riding the subway in a medieval ...

  9. Institution - Wikipedia

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    Religion: Some religion is like an ethnic or cultural category, making it less likely for the individuals to break from religious affiliations and be more socialized in this setting. Parental religious participation is the most influential part of religious socialization—more so than religious peers or religious beliefs. [24]