Have you read Michael S. Gazzaniga's work on confabulation in split-brain patients?

Or this paper on Equality Bias?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZcGJTVDZwRzNzeGM...

Have you read the books Everything Is Obvious (Once You Know the Answer) by Duncan Watts, or Social Sciences as Sorcery by Stanislav Andreski?

Your piece reminded me very much of both.