There was a fascinating paper released by McFadden & Lusk (2015) that explains why people irrationally believe in UFOs but not in climate change, are afraid of immigrants, people with different views, gender identity issues, etc. The reasons include: misinterpreting information, illusionary correlations, selectively scrutinizing information, information-processing problems, knowledge, political affiliation, and cognitive function.
There was a fascinating paper released by McFadden & Lusk (2015) that explains why people irrationally believe in UFOs but not in climate change, are afraid of immigrants, people with different views, gender identity issues, etc. The reasons include: misinterpreting information, illusionary correlations, selectively scrutinizing information, information-processing problems, knowledge, political affiliation, and cognitive function.