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Yes and No. Yes: There is the idea of constructivism, where everyone constructs their own reality all the time. There is no shared, objective reality. And there are multiple ways to construct a reality, and some are, for example, based on emotion: "I feel it, therefore it must be true"[^1]. And there are reinforcing patterns which protect your reality constructions from falling apart, proofing it against what from other people's perspective would be considered evidence. The most famous protection mechanism is the Confirmation Bias. Another one that is widely spread among conspiracy mystics is Disagreement implies Ignorance: You disagree with me because you're ignorant to the facts. Another one would be Disagreement implies Dislike: You disagree with me because you don't like me, not because I'm wrong. So yeah, what you call "story-based" is from my perspective a class of reality constructions. But no, it's not about some people being like this, and some people being like that. Everyone constructs their reality all the time, and constructing them in a specific way is a muscle you can train, something that changes over time _and_ something where you can fall into both of your categories at the same time.
A famous example would be HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. People who are any or more of these things tend to create their reality differently without even noticing. If I'm hungry, I'm angry, and I tend to accept things more easily into my world view that justify my being angry, without even being aware of it. Only after a good meal I would be able to change my perspective again. [^1]: For a fascinating glimpse into many reality construction patterns which are centred around emotions, I recommend this series of texts around a sub-group of parents of estranged children: https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/ |