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How Do You Decide What to Believe?

The way you decide what is true affects judgement, communication, conflict, leadership and the quality of your decisions.

Explore whether you tend to rely more on logic, feelings, faith, mystic insight, social proof or scepticism, then use your profile to make better decisions.

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How do you decide what to believe questionnaire

Thinking style

Notice which methods you use when deciding what is true, reliable or worth acting on.

Decision quality

Reflect on evidence, assumptions, social influence, certainty and the risk of false beliefs.

Profile summary

See which belief-validation styles appear most often in your answers, with explanations.

Critical thinking

Why how you decide what to believe matters

You act on what you believe to be true. If your beliefs are accurate, your decisions are more likely to work. If your beliefs are mistaken, even sincere effort can lead in the wrong direction.

People validate beliefs in different ways. Some rely on logic and evidence, some on emotion or intuition, some on faith or authority, some on majority opinion, and some start from scepticism.

This questionnaire helps you notice your pattern. The aim is not to label one style as good and another as bad, but to ask whether your usual style is suitable for the decision in front of you.

Workplace impact

Why thinking styles matter at work

At work, belief-forming habits affect strategy, problem solving, leadership, conflict, change, communication and risk. Teams can waste time when people argue from different standards of proof without realising it.

One person may ask for evidence, another may trust instinct, another may follow precedent, and another may doubt every claim. These differences shape how people respond to proposals and decisions.

Better thinking starts by making the process visible. When you know how you tend to decide what to believe, you can deliberately add missing checks before acting.

Thinking styles

Six ways people validate beliefs

Most people use more than one style, but one or two may dominate under pressure.

Rational

Looks for logic, evidence, consistency and testable claims before accepting an idea.

Emotional

Gives weight to feelings, instincts, attraction, alarm or personal emotional response.

Religious

Gives weight to faith, revelation, scripture or religious teaching as a source of truth.

Mystic

Gives weight to intuition, symbolism or non-scientific sources of insight.

Social

Looks to majority opinion, authority, family, friends or respected people for guidance.

Sceptical

Questions certainty and asks whether claims, perceptions or authorities can be trusted.

Questionnaire

Choose the option that best describes you

Choose the answer you most agree with. Your profile is reflective, not diagnostic, and will show which belief-validation styles appear most often in your answers.

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Whenever there is a clash between what your logical mind tells you, on the one hand, and what your GUT FEELINGS or INSTINCTS tell you on the other hand; Which would win the battle: your logic or your gut feel?
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What your gut feeling or "instincts" can tell you

Whenever there is a clash between what your logical mind tells you, on the one hand, and what your GUT FEELINGS or INSTINCTS tell you on the other hand; Which would win the battle: your logic or your gut feel?

Do you trust the power of the scientific, rational, logical mind of Man, (and Woman) to uncover the truth about the way things really are? Or do you believe that logic is flawed and that logic and science and reason; the experimental method, is incapable of discerning the TRUTH about the way the world really works.
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Logical reasoning

Do you trust the power of the scientific, rational, logical mind of Man, (and Woman) to uncover the truth about the way things really are? Or do you believe that logic is flawed and that logic and science and reason; the experimental method, is incapable of discerning the TRUTH about the way the world really works.

To what degree are you tending to believe things on the basis that most other people appear to believe it too. If you are in a room of 20 people and 19 say "I think it is best to go left" and you are the only one who thinks, "I think it is best to go right", then would that fact be sufficient, in itself, for you to admit you must be wrong.
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What the Majority opinion says is true

To what degree are you tending to believe things on the basis that most other people appear to believe it too. If you are in a room of 20 people and 19 say "I think it is best to go left" and you are the only one who thinks, "I think it is best to go right", then would that fact be sufficient, in itself, for you to admit you must be wrong.

Do you believe you can trust your own five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell? Meaning you believe that “seeing is believing”. Or are you of the opinion that the senses deceive you and that you cannot trust your own eyes, because things such as optical illusions prove to us that the senses cannot be trusted. “Seeing is NOT necessarily believing”.
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The Five Physical Senses

Do you believe you can trust your own five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell? Meaning you believe that “seeing is believing”. Or are you of the opinion that the senses deceive you and that you cannot trust your own eyes, because things such as optical illusions prove to us that the senses cannot be trusted. “Seeing is NOT necessarily believing”.

Whenever there is a big problem, would you consider praying to God for an answer?
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Revelation from God

Whenever there is a big problem, would you consider praying to God for an answer?

Whenever the question of logic vs. faith comes up, which way do you tend to jump? For example: did God make man in 6 days, as it says in the bible? Or did Darwinian evolution based upon millions of years of natural selection make man? Is the idea of God true or not?
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What faith tells you?

Whenever the question of logic vs. faith comes up, which way do you tend to jump? For example: did God make man in 6 days, as it says in the bible? Or did Darwinian evolution based upon millions of years of natural selection make man? Is the idea of God true or not?

Whenever big issues come up, such as climate change, or the war on terror, or the global economy, do you tend to...
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What the authorities tell you

Whenever big issues come up, such as climate change, or the war on terror, or the global economy, do you tend to...

When making important decisions do you tend to...
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What the high status people in your life tell you

When making important decisions do you tend to...

In relation to mystic methods such as, astrology, or numerology, or tarot cards, or fortune tellers, what is your tendency to believe in this class of knowledge?
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Mystic insight

In relation to mystic methods such as, astrology, or numerology, or tarot cards, or fortune tellers, what is your tendency to believe in this class of knowledge?

On 8 March 2014 The Malaysian government officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight Mh370, en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Mh370 was never found so, if you had relatives on that flight, would you tend to...
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Wishful thinking

On 8 March 2014 The Malaysian government officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight Mh370, en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Mh370 was never found so, if you had relatives on that flight, would you tend to...

Your results

Your thinking style profile

Your answers show which methods of deciding what to believe appear most often in your selected responses. Use the profile and explanations as prompts for better judgement and decision making.

Thinking style summary

Your belief-validation profile

The profile below counts the thinking styles attached to your selected answers. Higher counts suggest styles you may rely on more often when deciding what to believe.

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Next steps

Use your profile to strengthen judgement

Personal development training

Develop clearer thinking, confidence, emotional control and personal effectiveness.

Leadership and management training

Improve judgement, decision making, communication and leadership under pressure.

Free consultation

Discuss thinking skills, leadership or personal development needs and choose the right training route.

Using your profile

Ask better questions before deciding

Treat your profile as a map of tendencies, not a fixed identity. Different decisions may require different standards of proof.

If your answers lean strongly towards one style, deliberately add another check. A feeling may need evidence. A logical argument may need emotional consequences considered. A majority view may need independent testing.

The practical aim is better judgement: fewer false assumptions, clearer reasons, stronger communication and more deliberate decision making.

Related development areas

Skills that support better judgement

Personal development training

Develop clearer thinking, confidence, emotional control and personal effectiveness.

Leadership and management training

Strengthen decision making, communication, leadership standards and team judgement.

Communication skills training

Improve how you explain reasons, challenge assumptions and discuss different viewpoints.

Conflict management training

Handle disagreement more constructively when people hold different beliefs or standards of proof.

Common Questions

Thinking style questionnaire questions

Answers to common questions about belief, thinking styles, decision making and critical thinking.

It helps you reflect on the methods you use to decide what to believe, including logic, feelings, faith, mystic insight, social proof and scepticism.

No single style explains every decision. The useful question is whether your preferred style is appropriate to the situation, the evidence and the consequences of being wrong.

No. It is a reflective thinking style questionnaire. It gives you a profile of your selected answers, but it is not a formal psychological or diagnostic assessment.

Use the results to notice patterns in how you validate information. If one style dominates, ask whether important decisions would benefit from more evidence, clearer logic, better emotional awareness or wider consultation.