In each case, presumably, our belief gains its warrant from the fact that it meets a particular causal condition, e.g., it is produced by a reliable process.
Decision makers in organizations have beliefs gained from trial-and-error experiences about how to use systems engineering on proposals to capture contracts.
Well-known examinations by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986), Knorr-Cetina (1981), Pickering (1984), Shapin and Schaffer (1985) seemed to bear out that it was social ideologies (on a macro-scale) or individual interactions and circumstances (on a micro-scale) which were the primary causal factors in determining which beliefs gained the status of scientific knowledge.
People volunteer to be needed, share a skill, get to know their community, to demonstrate a commitment to a cause or belief, gain leadership skills, or even due to pressure from a relative or friend.
The belief has gained considerable popularity in China, where the film 2012 was a box office hit.
LoC beliefs have been associated with successful treatment outcomes; those patients with stronger internal beliefs had gained more from the treatment [ 32].
In the US, anti-environmental beliefs have gained traction on the right, which views action on climate change as "big government".
In my last three posts, I've written about our fundamental belief in gaining a competitive advantage through practice, how we facilitate management classes, and how we emphasize the lessons learned in those sessions.
Shaffer's syndrome model argues that behavioral addictions (like gambling, sex and eating) can be just as powerful as an addiction to heroin or crystal meth, and his belief is gaining acceptance among neuroscientists and addiction researchers, many of whom used to dismiss this idea as a product of an American culture that's addicted to calling everything an addiction.
Furthermore, low-income black women did not limit their gestational weight gain, despite knowledge of the risk for weight retention due to their belief that gaining more weight is indicative of a healthy infant [ 24].
Forty-three of the 46 surgeons (93.5%) expressed a belief that experience gained so far world-wide with this technique is sufficient to warrant its use in clinical practice.
