What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief

Nikolay Litov/Shutterstock, CC BY-SA Beliefs are convictions of reality that we accept as true. They provide us with the basic mental scaffolding to understand and engage meaningfully in our world. Beliefs remain fundamental to our behaviour and identity, but are not well understood. Delusions, on the other hand, are fixed, usually false, beliefs that are […]

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