Beliefs and Behaviour

Like attitudes, we also have beliefs about ourselves, people and things around us. Beliefs refer to the acceptance of something as truth. In fact when one has a strong belief it often becomes unshakable.

For instance, belief that a supernatural power controls human destiny or a God is very strong, or, may have a belief in afterlife. Once a belief is formed you are confident about the occurrence of certain events and how you or people are likely to behave.

It helps to understand why people behave in a particular way or why an event has taken place. Beliefs help us to organize our experiences in the social world and predict our own behaviour as well as the occurrence of events.