Throughout this book we have made clear that the notion of belief occupies a central role in our conceptual structure. A person's belief about an object was described as the perceived probabilistic relation between that object and some attribute. We showed that the formation of one belief may lead to the of other inferential beliefs, that a person's attitude is determined by his salient beliefs about the attitude object; and that beliefs about a given behavior person's intention to perform the behavior and thus also influence the overt behavior itself