Aliefs: Automatic Belief-Like Attitudes in Cognitive Psychology
Aliefs are automatic, affective, associative, and arational belief-like attitudes that operate independently of—and can conflict with—a person's explicit, reasoned beliefs, driving instinctive emotional and behavioral responses even when they contradict what a person knows to be true. This concept belongs to cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind, specifically the study of cognitive biases and dual-process accounts of belief, and relates to its parent discipline as a construct for explaining behavior/affect that resists correction by rational belief revision, including implicit bias.
Aliefs: Automatic Belief-Like Attitudes in Cognitive Psychology
Aliefs are automatic, affective, associative, and arational belief-like attitudes that operate independently of—and can conflict with—a person's explicit, reasoned beliefs, driving instinctive emotio…