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. 2022 Jul 29:13:981925.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.981925. eCollection 2022.

The nature of beliefs and believing

Mahault Albarracin  1   2 , Riddhi J Pitliya  1   3
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The nature of beliefs and believing

Mahault Albarracin et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: active inference; beliefs (non-religious); epistemic (belief) changes; psychopathology; socio-political.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
An illustration of how a model of the external world is formed, resulting in beliefs about the true states of the world and belief updating, encoded by internal states.
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