For instance, most children in elementary school have incorrect beliefs about gravity and the movement of the solar system.
This can lead to incorrect belief that it is a compression protocol.
"And this incorrect belief may be a reason why women opt for breast implants: trying to achieve a cultural ideal they believe others have."
He was using the standard definition: to lead into error, to cause someone to form an incorrect belief.
A woman is particularly vulnerable to the negative and incorrect belief that she doesn't deserve to be loved.
A man is particularly vulnerable to this incorrect belief.
A placebo only works in a case of incorrect belief.
The book's title comes from Cohen's incorrect belief that the second bounce of a ball is difficult to predict.
At the time, this was rejected in the incorrect belief that space there is a vacuum.
Even factually incorrect beliefs can shape the perceptions and behaviour of people who hold them.