{"id":49498,"date":"2015-02-05T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/the-just-world-hypothesis-and-the-blaming-of-victims.html"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:19:35","slug":"the-just-world-hypothesis-and-the-blaming-of-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/the-just-world-hypothesis-and-the-blaming-of-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"The "Just World" Hypothesis and the blaming of victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'd not heard of these studies\/experiments, but they certainly sound both correct — and disturbing. In short, people who believe the world should be fundamentally fair and just — that virtue is rewarded and that vice is punished — will, if faced with an injustice they can't understand or correct, tend to blame the victim. After all, if someone is in a bad way, and there are no obvious (or addressable) bad guys who put them there, it must be their fault.<\/i><\/p>\n

You can see this in cases of rape. You can see this in cases of poverty. You can see this all over the place. The desire to find a reason<\/i> and for a world that makes sense<\/i> leads to the conclusion that people who are suffering must have some role (either through personal flaws or in God's punishment) in how they got into that situation.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I'd not heard of these studies\/experiments, but they certainly sound both correct — and disturbing. In short, people who believe the world should be fundamentally fair and just — that virtue is rewarded and that vice is punished — will, if faced with an injustice they can't understand or correct, tend to blame the victim. … Continue reading “The "Just World" Hypothesis and the blaming of victims”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/04\/well_this_fills.html","url_meta":{"origin":49498,"position":0},"title":"Well, this fills me with confidence","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Sep-03 2:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An internal audit found that IRS tax advisers -- you know, the ones you're encouraged to call in case you have a question on your 1040, etc.? -- answered questions...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132502,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/legislating-away-judicial-precedent.html","url_meta":{"origin":49498,"position":1},"title":"Legislating Away Judicial Precedent","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-17 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Rep. 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