Would someone be kind enough to explain why my comment is downvoted? (I cannot learn why what I said was wrong without it). Since this post invites comments and discussion I am a bit confused.
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I'm not the downvoter, but I support people's desire to know why they got voted down, so I'll share my hypothesis. I think that "Belief as Attire" is intended to be a theory which makes testable predictions. For instance, it would predict that people profess non-anticipation-controlling beliefs that identify them with a group they want to be in more often than those that do not identify them with such a group. It also predicts that non-group-identifying improper b...
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