BACKGROUND Individual health beliefs are likely to play a key role in how people respond to knowledge and information about the potential harm from smoking and alcohol abuse. The objectives of the study were to 1) explore whether functional beliefs and risk minimizing beliefs were associated with intention to quit smoking and confidence to quit smoking and 2) explore whether functional beliefs ...

Prior work shows that children view group membership and psychological traits in essentialist terms, perceiving them to be both biologically determined and stable across time. To what extent might individuals view mental states such as beliefs similarly? Given that beliefs are often based on experience and can change across time, one hypothesis is that beliefs on the whole do not elicit essenti...

A decision maker is asked to express her beliefs by assigning probabilities to certain possible states. We focus on the relationship between her database and her beliefs. We show that, if beliefs given a union of two databases are a convex combination of beliefs given each of the databases, the belief formation process follows a simple formula: beliefs are a similarity-weighted average of the b...

The purpose of this study is to build an understanding the core values Islamic accounting and merchant communication in buying selling transactions. Describe process transactions carried out by traders Rawabadak market. This type research a case with qualitative approach. Data collection techniques are interviews, observation, documentation. results indicate that have good form value monotheism...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility, sharia governance, and earning management in Islamic bank industry sector. study uses secondary data, which is analyzed using a regression panel with fixed-effect model. Samples were obtained from 48 banks 16 countries 2009 to 2018. The sample criteria this are that disclose their zakat payments annual reports. empiri...

Scientific entities like X-rays and black holes defy firsthand observation and everyday intuition, yet most people outside the scientific community still believe in their existence. Upon what kind of epistemic foundations do such beliefs rest? The present study explored this question by comparing students’ scientific beliefs to their supernatural beliefs along four dimensions of epistemic impor...