Ideology influences facts and leads to conflict
(WorldNews Netherlands)

19 September 2018 The terms fake news and post-truth have become a fixed part of our vocabulary. Mistrust of public institutions and science seems to be growing, just like the gap between reality and rhetoric. In a new publication, social psychologists Bastiaan Rutjens from the University of Amsterdam and Mark Brandt from Tilburg University bring together cutting-edge research on the influence of belief systems on our perception of reality and the conflicts that follow from this. A majority of people believe they are objectively perceiving reality and that others with the same information experience the world in the same way. `As a result, people who do not share our views are quickly...