Cognitive False Beliefs new

False Beliefs and Their Behavioral Consequences

Human psychology is so amazing that it can control human behavior with and without his conscious will. People often develop habits, behaviors or routines that become a vital part of their lives and once they become used to these habits, there are often negative aspects associated to these routines and habits that develop false believe in them (False Memories Can Influence Behavior, 2008). When there are false believes in the minds of people, they observe the world with same negative believes and perceptions and respond accordingly. The paper investigates whether the childhood memories affect the behavior in later age or not and how long-term or short-term it can be that the believes affect behavior.

Summary

The false believes are such a disease that is often beyond a person's ability to control. These believe inculcate in the minds of people and then limit the optimistic thinking capability of people. The authors of the research analysis paper investigate in what manners the false beliefs and memories negatively influence attitude and behavior of people. The research also focuses on the false believes related to the food habits. For example, the children start hating food items that were once followed by illness. Egg salad, for example, can be negatively perceived if the child got ill after eating it. The authors investigate if the child remembers or forgets the cause why he has negative believes about an object.

To investigate...

There were total 180 individuals that were studied. With demographic of women and men and country of Netherlands, the researchers told the surveyed individuals that they did not have any illness. One of the groups was egg-salad group that were given a fake advise that in their childhood they got ill because of the egg salads. Other individuals were given the egg salad but not the fake suggestion. The believers and the non-believers in the egg salad were found. The study found that the behavior of a person can be changed overtime. When a person is told about a past experience, true or fake, his behavior might change. The change in behavior, as the study suggests, can be long-term or short-term (Geraerts, Bernstein, Merckelbach, Linders, Raymaekers, and Loftus, 2008). The study says that the belief does not only affect the perceptions but also starts translating in the actions of the people.
The research expected to see some results on the believers but it was found that both the believers and the non-believers stopped from the egg salad in short-term after knowing that it is associated with a childhood disease. There was a contagion effect as well. However, the subjects became confident after the successful experience of the food that did not end in any health problem.

Analysis

Human mind controls his body as well as the actions. The false believes that a person develops are studied in the research. The method that was adopted in this research was such that the subjects were…