beliefs

It's hard to uproot deeply held beliefs about cancer screening with scientific data.

There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts.

If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist, said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning traditional beliefs about gender and brain function.

One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

That feeling echoes the beliefs of the Therapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on an ongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city.

We then assessed their beliefs about other aspects of learning and looked to see what happened to their grades.

While the "five-second rule" might not seem like the most pressing issue for food scientists to get to the bottom of, it's still worth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat.

We also need to know whether our thoughts, beliefs and ideas are in line with those of other people.

Changing your beliefs about the nature of your self-control can have positive effects on character development.

Further, the more their computer gave them problems, the more likely the respondents were to report that it had its own "beliefs and conscientiousness".

In general, your attitudes will be internally consistent only when the behavior is easy, and when those around you hold similar beliefs.

Another way of setting realistic goals is to analyze your short and long term objectives, keeping in mind your beliefs, values and strengths.

As a discovery claim works its way through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discove

Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.

I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development.

Morgan helped found modern anthropology—the scientific study of human societies, customs and beliefs thus becoming one of the earliest anthropologists.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page一including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns一debates about texts can pla