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Cognitive Dissonance - The mental discomfort from holding contradictory beliefs or behaving inconsistently with beliefs.
Fixed Mindset - The belief that abilities, intelligence, and talents are innate traits that cannot be significantly developed or changed.
Belief Revision - The process of changing one's beliefs when confronted with new evidence that contradicts prior assumptions.
Just World Hypothesis - The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
Conservatism Bias - The tendency to insufficiently revise beliefs when presented with new evidence.
Core Beliefs - Deep, fundamental assumptions a person holds about themselves, others, and the world that shape their surface thoughts and reactions.
Pragmatism - A philosophical tradition holding that the truth or value of an idea should be measured by its practical usefulness and real-world consequences rather than by its correspondence to abstract or objective reality.
Epistemic Rationality - The systematic pursuit of accurate beliefs through evidence, reason, and willingness to update one's views.
Fear of Success - Anxiety about achieving success because of its perceived costs, which leads people to unconsciously hold themselves back.
Belief in Belief - A cognitive situation where your stated beliefs conflict with your actual actions and expectations.
Limiting Beliefs - Self-imposed mental constraints that hold you back from reaching your potential.
Empowering Beliefs - Constructive beliefs about oneself and one's possibilities that expand what a person feels able to attempt and achieve.
Values and Beliefs - Values determine why we think and act, while beliefs dictate how we think and act.
Success Identity - Seeing yourself as someone who succeeds - identity-level belief in your capacity for achievement.
Placebo Effect - A beneficial effect produced by a treatment or belief that cannot be attributed to the treatment itself, demonstrating that expectations and constructed meanings can produce real physiological and psychological outcomes.
Belief Perseverance - Maintaining beliefs despite encountering contradictory evidence.
System Justification - The tendency to defend and bolster the status quo and existing social arrangements.
Beliefs as Tools - The pragmatic view that beliefs and ideas are cognitive instruments to be selected based on their practical usefulness and desired effects, rather than fixed truths to be defended or permanent positions to hold.
Upper Limit Problem - The unconscious tendency to sabotage yourself when your happiness or success rises above an internal limit for how good you allow life to be.
Cognitive Sovereignty - The principle that individuals have the responsibility and ability to deliberately choose their own perspectives, beliefs, and interpretations rather than having them determined by mood, manipulation, social pressure, or instinct.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - A prediction that causes itself to become true through the expectation's influence.

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