This paper underscores how a dominant belief in social inclusion not only has shaped Brazil's post-1988 institutions, but has also dominated policy preferences of Brazilian politicians regardless of their ideological ...

ales regarding transformations of animals, expressing social beliefs related to the relationship between humans, animals, and supernatural beings, are spread all over the world. This paper deals with the intertwining of ...

This work presents the procedures and results of the validation process of a data collecting instrument to survey the self-efficacy beliefs of Secondary School Physics Teacher's. This instrument consists of a Likert scale ...

Alston, Lee J., Melo, Marcus Andre, Mueller, Bernardo, and Pereira, Carlos-Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil We link a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states ...

We link a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge, to the recent literature on beliefs, and argue that changes in beliefs may shift the equilibrium over time. We present evidence that ...

In the area of language teaching and second language acquisition, there has recently been an increasing emphasis on learners’ beliefs, since they impose a great potential in the learning process. Hence, learners’ beliefs ...