Agents whose material, social, human capital, and cultural endowments give them different stakes in various states of the world (large or small role of effort; efficient or inefficient government; degree of trustworthiness of others) will process and interpret the same signals very differently...

This class of models also implies that people will seek interactions with those who think like them, and shun those whose words or actions provide signals and reminders that threaten valued "constructed realities"