Across four pre-registered online studies (N = 2,027 U.S. adults), researchers found that people are significantly more disturbed by others holding "false" beliefs than beliefs that are merely different from their own, driving social segregation and avoidance behaviors
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Wiley Online Library
The misery of misbelief: People are more disturbed by others' false beliefs than by differences in beliefs
Belief homophily—the tendency to associate with others who hold similar beliefs and the distaste for different beliefs—is often seen as a major cause for belief-based social segregation and polarizat...
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