Disagree with their conclusions all you want. Attack the methodology if you feel it is warranted. Why write off the paper because you don’t like the source?
Haven't you raged about media bias and dismissed all sorts of news on this very basis?
Identity-Protective Cognition is firmware / built in software that all humans have...it protects us with things that just do not compute with our previous life expereinces (Erlebnis in German) and other form of experiences (Erfahrung, these concepts are not the same)
https://medium.com/@jacobhoerger/lived-experience-vs-experience-2e467b6c2229
Well maybe not all humans have IPC. I am not sure if HIMBOs and Sociopaths have it.