Observers of human nature know that people commonly endorse information confirming their existing beliefs rather than objectively considering conflicting evidence. Although such confirmation bias is a well-known impediment to objective thinking, a less familiar obstacle involves the tendency to blindly favor people belonging to one’s political group while reflexively projecting...
Observers of human nature know that people commonly endorse information confirming their existing beliefs rather than objectively considering conflicting evidence. Although such confirmation bias is a well-known impediment to objective thinking, a less familiar obstacle involves the tendency to blindly favor people belonging to one’s political group while reflexively projecting…
