false belief
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The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I start to absorb this false belief that they put together, and I’m accepting it as a truth,” Perez said years later in a deposition about what happened to his mental state during that interrogation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Do you think a part of that false belief lives on in modern gynecology today?
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
In Dharmakīrti’s case, the nomad believes there is water in the valley based on the false belief that a mirage is an oasis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
True, the incident of the epidemic in Simití two years before had impressed upon him the serious consequences of fear, and the blighting results of false belief.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
