Avoiding facts inconvenient to our worldview isn’t just some passive, unconscious habit we engage in. We do it because we find these facts to be genuinely unpleasant.https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/11/16897062/political-psychology-trump-explain-studies-research-science-motivated-reasoning-bias-fake-news …
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And here's another point people often miss in discussions about "fake news": It’s not the case that if only people had perfectly true information, everyone would suddenly agree. More information often makes people even more stubborn.
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A third important point on facts. It's not always the facts themselves that people seek to avoid. It's where they lead. If facts have consequences you despise, you're more likely to reject them. And vice, versa. This is called "solutions aversion."
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Find more on the science of facts, bias, and political psychology in this comprehensive piece I published on @voxdotcomhttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/11/16897062/political-psychology-trump-explain-studies-research-science-motivated-reasoning-bias-fake-news …
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