In a paper just accepted at Schizophrenia Bulletin, @philcorlett.bsky.social and I, along with coauthors, explore the relationship between generalization and delusions. We find an asymmetry: delusionality tracks either over-generalizing causes or under-generalizing their absence. 1/3

@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. 1/

Cognition@cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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).

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...