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What Is Naive Realism?
The idea that people naively believe their perceptions of reality and how things are and how things ought to be are realistic is one of the most important ideas in social psychology. It's an idea that works just fine when we talk about our physical perceptions. But then people apply the same conviction to social reality, which is generally really, really messy and often hotly contested. Both sides still think that they have an accurate conceptualization of how reality really is.