Thanks for the reply and I agree. I've found the "strong program" of postmodern science and technology studies to be a place where this is addressed. It is insu

Thanks for the reply and I agree. I've found the "strong program" of postmodern science and technology studies to be a place where this is addressed. It is insufficient to claim that truth-believers believe things because they are true and falsehood-believers believe weird things because of psychological or material factors. Progress can only be made when we use the same rubric for evaluating people whether we agree with them or not. I feel that your concern with the motivating factors of emotion is apt. People do not believe things because they seem true, they believe things because those things help resolve tension between their own psyche, their own experiences, and their perception of the current and future worlds. If a program intended to mitigate human biases does not use the same rules for apparently true beliefs and apparently false beliefs, fails to account for the fact that truth-knowing persons are still just as biased as those in error, and denies the primal motivating factors that we call 'emotions', it will fall into error and fail to achieve its objective.