You see it every where to greater or lesser degrees. If memory serves data from the 1980s supported by 30 years of interaction with thousands of college students suggest that given the choice between an uncomfortable truth and a soothing lie, well over half the population will choose to believe the lie - even when they know it's a lie. And once committed to it, they become intransigent. It's really hard to pry them loose, even from beliefs they know to be false.
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