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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Social Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Beliefs are fundamental to human cognition, decision-making, and social interactions.
  • Understanding belief interrelationships is key, but prior research is limited in scope and methodology.
  • Existing studies often focus on specific issues and rely on traditional survey methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method for studying the interplay of thousands of beliefs.
  • To leverage online user debate data and large language models for belief analysis.
  • To map beliefs into a neural embedding space for nuanced investigation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a fine-tuned large language model to construct a neural embedding space for beliefs.
  • Analyzed extensive online user debate data to capture belief interrelationships.
  • Mapped diverse beliefs onto the constructed embedding space to represent their connections and polarization.

Main Results:

  • The belief space effectively captures the interconnectedness and polarization of beliefs across various social issues.
  • Positions within the belief space can predict individuals' new beliefs.
  • The model can estimate cognitive dissonance based on the spatial distance between existing and new beliefs.

Conclusions:

  • Large language models combined with collective online belief data offer powerful insights into belief formation.
  • This approach provides a scalable and nuanced method for studying complex belief systems.
  • The findings contribute to understanding fundamental principles governing human belief structures and dynamics.