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The Value of Beliefs

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NEURON
Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages 561-565

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.001

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  1. Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship [214268/Z/18/Z]
  2. National Institute of Mental Health [R01MH110594, R01MH116937]

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We construct our beliefs to meet two sometimes conflicting goals: forming accurate beliefs to inform our decisions and forming desirable beliefs that we value for their own sake. In this NeuroView, we consider emerging neuroscience evidence on how the brain motivates itself to form particular beliefs and why it does so.

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