Belief Systems Regulate People's Emotions

A belief system is something that enables you to ascribe value to things. It regulates people's emotions, but not as a consequence of decreasing their death anxiety or anything like that. The emotional control that belief systems allow is mediated by success in the social environment. People are willing to defend their belief systems because they're defending the territorial structure that enables them to make sense of the world and then act out making sense of the world with everyone else around them....