Because stereotypes focus on differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar.
For some, belief in the cause, belief in the leader or even, given the tribal nature of the British army, belief in the regiment, will be enough.
What's your topic, idea, cause, belief?
The speaker intends to cause belief in the truth of a statement that the speaker believes to be false.
According to him, making an assertion involves making a statement and intending to cause belief in the truth of that statement by giving an implicit "warranty"or an implicit "promise or assurance that the statement is true" (Fried 1978, 57).
That is because the best psychological theories will be concerned with categorizing experiences causally, that is, according to their role in causing beliefs and behavior.
For, if pains caused beliefs that one is in pain, and the latter had physical effects, then pains would, after all, have effects in the physical world (albeit indirectly).
Pain, for example, is caused by tissue damage or trauma to bodily regions, and in turn causes beliefs (e.g., that one is in pain), desires (e.g., that one relieves the pain), and behaviors like crying out, nursing the damaged area, and seeking out pain relieving drugs.
Is it perhaps that the world tends to cause satisfied beliefs (true beliefs), while desires tend to cause there to be a desire-satisfying (desire-fulfilling) world?
Why coming to see death's naturalness should have caused belief in an afterlife to melt away, I am unsure, but it did.
