I think you need to specify if you’re talking about terminal values or instrumental values.
There’s obviously a big difference between beliefs and terminal values. Beliefs are inputs to our decision-making processes, and terminal values may be as well. However, while beliefs are outputs of the belief-making processes whose inputs are our perceptions, terminal values aren’t the output of any cognitive process, or they wouldn’t be terminal.
As for instrumental values, well, yes, they are beliefs about the best values that one should have in order to reach the terminal goals, so they would be outputs of the same or similar processes that create beliefs. Or at least, they start out that way; some or all of them end up becoming terminal values.
Some of this is going over my head, but...
I think you need to specify if you’re talking about terminal values or instrumental values.
There’s obviously a big difference between beliefs and terminal values. Beliefs are inputs to our decision-making processes, and terminal values may be as well. However, while beliefs are outputs of the belief-making processes whose inputs are our perceptions, terminal values aren’t the output of any cognitive process, or they wouldn’t be terminal.
As for instrumental values, well, yes, they are beliefs about the best values that one should have in order to reach the terminal goals, so they would be outputs of the same or similar processes that create beliefs. Or at least, they start out that way; some or all of them end up becoming terminal values.