Why do people often actively choose to believe lies?

Instructions

For this graded assignment, you are to write an annotated bibliography of materials relevant to your chosen research essay topic from eight different scholarly sources.

Each annotation is to be 150 words (+/- ten words) of text, excluding the bibliographic reference itself.
At least three sources are to be scholarly articles and two either scholarly books or a chapter from a scholarly book.
Otherwise, any sources that you deem to be credible (see Evaluating sources in the Purdue Online Writing Lab – Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). Evaluation sources of information. Retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/conducting_research/evaluating_sources_of_information/index.html) are acceptable, such as government reports or statistical databases.
The annotation must describe both the content of the source, and describe how the source is relevant to your essay topic.