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Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs

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Flanagan, O
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2009

McKay & Dennett (M&D) argue that positive illusions are a plausible candidate for a class of evolutionarily selected for misbeliefs. I argue (Flanagan 1991; 2007) that the class of alleged positive illusions is a hodge-podge, and that some of its members are best understood as positive attitudes, hopes, and the like, not as beliefs at all. © 2010 Cambridge University Press.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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1469-1825

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0140-525X

Publication Date

December 1, 2009

Volume

32

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6

Start / End Page

519 / 520

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1109 Neurosciences
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
 

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Flanagan, O. (2009). Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(6), 519–520. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991439
Flanagan, O. “Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, no. 6 (December 1, 2009): 519–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991439.
Flanagan O. Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2009 Dec 1;32(6):519–20.
Flanagan, O. “Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 32, no. 6, Dec. 2009, pp. 519–20. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S0140525X09991439.
Flanagan O. Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2009 Dec 1;32(6):519–520.
Journal cover image

Published In

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

DOI

EISSN

1469-1825

ISSN

0140-525X

Publication Date

December 1, 2009

Volume

32

Issue

6

Start / End Page

519 / 520

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1109 Neurosciences
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing