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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Belief Revision and Information Order Effects
Author : Kristina Yankova
Published in: The Influence of Information Order Effects and Trait Professional Skepticism on Auditors’ Belief Revisions
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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In a broad psychological sense, belief can be described as “
the mental state or function of cognizing reality.
” Belief has been acknowledged as a crucial and omnipresent component of human (intellectual) life. According to
Russell
(1921), believing is “
the most ‘mental’ thing
” people do and the exploration of the nature of belief is the focal point in the analysis of the human mind. In a similar vein,
Hume
(1748) posits that a life without beliefs is impos-sible and that holding and updating beliefs is an inevitable part of human nature.