We construct our beliefs to meet two sometimes conflicting goals: forming accurate beliefs to inform our decisions and forming desirable beliefs that we value for their own sake. In this NeuroView, we consider emerging neuroscience evidence on how the brain motivates itself to form particular beliefs and why it does so.

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信念的价值。

我们构建自己的信念以实现两个有时相互冲突的目标：形成准确的信念以告知我们的决策，并形成我们认为出于自身利益而重视的理想信念。在此NeuroView中，我们考虑了有关神经如何激励自己形成特定信念以及为什么这样做的神经科学证据。