Drying a mindsponge: transcending belief

Estimating and examining the replicability of belief system networks

10.31234/osf.io/nm52q ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mark John Brandt

Keyword(s):

Political System ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Belief System ◽

System Structure ◽

Centrality Measures ◽

The Political ◽

World Values Survey ◽

Political Systems ◽

System P ◽

The World

Belief system structure can be investigated by estimating belief systems as networks of interacting political attitudes, but we do not know if these estimates are replicable. In a sample of 31 countries from the World Values Survey (N = 52,826), I find that country’s belief system networks are relatively replicable in terms of connectivity, proportion of positive edges, some centrality measures (e.g., expected influence), and the estimates of individual edges. Betweenness, closeness, and strength centrality estimates are more unstable. Belief system networks estimated with smaller samples or in countries with more unstable political systems tend to be less replicable than networks estimated with larger samples in stable political systems. Although these analyses are restricted to the items available in the World Values Survey, they show that belief system networks can be replicable, but that this replicability is related to features of the study design and the political system.

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The Only thing that Fans want

10.31219/osf.io/ap5sk ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Manh-Toan Ho

Keyword(s):

Belief System ◽

Short Paper ◽

Thought Process ◽

System P ◽

Simultaneous Existence

This short paper offers a viable pathway to explain the thought process of individuals who are engaging in creating adult content. The pathway is supported by the mindsponge (MSp) mechanism, popularized by Vuong Quan Hoang in his seminal papers in 2015 and 2016. Aside from that, cultural additivity (CA) is also used to explain the simultaneous existence of contradicting values in a belief system.

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Elements of a Design Theory of Nano-Viral Messages: A Case Study of #Solar Nanovirals

10.31235/osf.io/rwxkc ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Nick Flor

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Design Theory ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Belief System ◽

Core Beliefs ◽

Systems Modeling ◽

Conceptual Blending ◽

System P ◽

Science And Technology News

Viral messages reach a large number of people at almost no cost. However, the majority of viral messages are based on shocking or entertaining content. Is it possible to make other kinds of content go viral, such as science and technology news? I use conceptual blending analysis to analyze five representative, very small messages about solar technology that went viral (nanovirals). I identify four distinct viral strategies that vary according to the number of belief systems used, and whether the viral message confirmed or contradicted central beliefs. Finally, I use information systems modeling to depict a common viral mechanism underlying the strategies. I conclude with a practical heuristic to guide the design of nanoviral messages. The key finding is that messages spread virally because they confirm core beliefs in an in-group’s shared belief system or they contradict core beliefs in an out-group’s shared belief system.

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Ideology

Flowers Through Concrete ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198788324.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 185-228

Author(s):

Juliane Fürst

Keyword(s):

Youth Culture ◽

World View ◽

Belief System ◽

Left Wing ◽

Generational Conflict ◽

System P ◽

Boomerang Effect ◽

Utopian Thinking ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Late Socialism

This chapter looks in depth into the Soviet hippie belief system, while, at the same time, noting the absence of a unified ideology, whose very existence hippies rejected for themselves. It begins with an exploration of the indebtedness of hippie beliefs to the rituals and practices of official Soviet youth culture, highlighting both similarities and differences to Western hippie thought. It then proceeds to discuss common hippie tropes such as freedom, love, peace, and generational conflict with reference to the Soviet case, concluding that there was a lot of ideological overlap between the fundamental messages of communist socialization and the global hippie creed, which indeed had its very roots in the same left-wing, utopian thinking as early Soviet revolutionary ideas. While this ‘boomerang’ effect of radical, communitarian thinking unsettled the Soviet authorities, it also meant that Soviet hippies remained true to their socialist upbringing and world view shaped by late socialism in the very rebellion they staged against the system.

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How the Progressives Became the Tea Party’s Mortal Enemy

The Progressives' Century ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300204841.003.0021 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Steven M. Teles

Keyword(s):

Belief System ◽

Tea Party ◽

The Political ◽

Conservative Movement ◽

Wrong Response ◽

Heritage Foundation ◽

System P ◽

History Of ◽

Political Philosopher ◽

Precise Time

This chapter first traces the roots of the stylized history of Progressivism's role in American liberalism found in the pronouncements of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party to a small cadre of conservatives grouped around the Claremont Institute, with the political philosopher Charles Kesler at its center. It explains how the ideas of these political thinkers spread through the conservative movement, with particular attention to the Heritage Foundation as a central node of the network, and how it came to be available when the opportunity for wider dissemination opened. The second section examines how this critique exploded into broader circulation within the conservative movement. The third section investigates why the attack on Progressivism was so avidly embraced by Tea Party conservatives at this precise time, how it provided a coherent story of America and, with that, the emotional energy needed to mobilize an already historically inflected movement. The fourth section discusses how this fundamentalist perspective on the nation's history, and on President Obama's place in it, has more than its share of outright lunacy. The wilder versions of antiprogressivism advanced by Beck and the less cautious scholars who influenced him have obscured and overtaken a more nuanced critique within conservatism, one that liberals would do well to take seriously. The wrong response to Tea Party fundamentalism is to respond in kind and simply hunker down in an alternative belief system.

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The Effect of the Belief System, Family Organizations and Family Communication on Covid-19 Prevention Behaviour: the Perspective of Family Resilience

International Journal of Disaster Management ◽

10.24815/ijdm.v4i2.20411 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 9-22

Author(s):

Ani Fadmawaty ◽

Wasludin Wasludin

Keyword(s):

Family Communication ◽

Belief System ◽

Family Resilience ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Family Function ◽

Significant Relationships ◽

System P ◽

The Family ◽

Family Breakdown ◽

Organizational Patterns

Family resilience has a very important role, especially in dealing with prolonged problems or crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The absence of family resilience might result in family breakdown, decreased family function in decision making, and destroy values in family life. This study aims to determine the effect of belief system, organizational patterns, and family communication on COVID-19 prevention behaviour within the framework of family resilience. The study focuses on factors that most likely influence COVID-19 prevention behaviour. This research is a descriptive analytic study using a cross-sectional approach. A total of 100 respondents representing households in the Banten province filled out or an online a questionnaire using Google Form. In this study, the multivariate analysis used is multiple logistic regression. The analysis showed that the variables that had significant relationships with COVID-19 prevention behaviour were the belief system (p = 0.005), family organization (p = 0.008) and family communication (p = 0.001). The results of this study also show that the family communication is the most related variable with an odds ratio of 2694, which means that family communication has the greatest influence of 2-3 times of ?? in efforts to prevent COVID-19.

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Comparison of TEM and STM observations of small silver clusters on different carbon supports

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010017445x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 264-265

Author(s):

Bernd Tesche ◽

Tobias Schilling

Keyword(s):

Vibration Isolation ◽

Pyrolytic Graphite ◽

Carbon Film ◽

Silver Clusters ◽

Carbon Supports ◽

Stacking Order ◽

System P ◽

High Resolution Tem ◽

High Degree ◽

Degree Of Order

The objective of our work is to determine:a) whether both of the imaging methods (TEM, STM) yield comparable data andb) which method is better suited for a reliable structure analysis of microclusters smaller than 1.5 nm, where a deviation of the bulk structure is expected.The silver was evaporated in a bell-jar system (p 10−5 pa) and deposited onto a 6 nm thick amorphous carbon film and a freshly cleaved highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG).The average deposited Ag thickness is 0.1 nm, controlled by a quartz crystal microbalance at a deposition rate of 0.02 nm/sec. The high resolution TEM investigations (100 kV) were executed by a hollow-cone illumination (HCI). For the STM investigations a commercial STM was used. With special vibration isolation we achieved a resolution of 0.06 nm (inserted diffraction image in Fig. 1c). The carbon film shows the remarkable reduction in noise by using HCI (Fig. 1a). The HOPG substrate (Fig. 1b), cleaved in sheets thinner than 30 nm for the TEM investigations, shows the typical arrangement of a nearly perfect stacking order and varying degrees of rotational disorder (i.e. artificial single crystals). The STM image (Fig. 1c) demonstrates the high degree of order in HOPG with atomic resolution.

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Psychological essentialism as a distinct component of the ideological belief system

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633942013-026 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Johannes Keller

Keyword(s):

Belief System ◽

Distinct Component ◽

Psychological Essentialism

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Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423045.003.0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Didier Debaise

Keyword(s):

Social Groups ◽

Speculative Philosophy ◽

System P ◽

History Of ◽

Selection Of

Process and Reality ends with a warning: ‘[t]he chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence’ (PR, 337). Although this danger of narrowness might emerge from the ‘idiosyncrasies and timidities of particular authors, of particular social groups, of particular schools of thought, of particular epochs in the history of civilization’ (PR, 337), we should not be mistaken: it occurs within philosophy, in its activity, its method. And the fact that this issue arises at the end of Process and Reality reveals the ambition that has accompanied its composition: Whitehead has resisted this danger through the form and ambition of his speculative construction. The temptation of a narrowness in selection attempts to expel speculative philosophy at the same time as it haunts each part of its system.

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