Martin Meyer
@m-meyer.bsky.social
A psychology graduate student studying belief systems
@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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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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Maybe there are two distinct kinds of belief: they either represent facts (It's rainy) or express identity (My son is the best). We find instead that many beliefs simultaneously represent facts and express identity (but few beliefs do neither).
December 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@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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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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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...
See where beliefs landed on identity (symbolic) and subjectivity: plotly.com/~m.meyer/6/
Here's the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Individual Responses Organized by Factor Scores | scatter chart made by M.meyer | plotly
plotly.com
November 30, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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...
See where beliefs landed on identity (symbolic) and subjectivity: plotly.com/~m.meyer/6/
Here's the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...