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How to Feel More Empathy (With the Host of Bad Women: The Ripper Retold)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Just World Bias

"I washed human bodies as well. A lot of times people did not have access to laundry facilities, to bathing facilities," she says. "The fact that these women were going through so much pain, i think leads to the next psychological bias." The just world bias is a belief that if we do the right thing, good things will happen to us,. But it also leads to this insidious rationalization, which is when you see a bad thing happen to a person and your first instinct is to assume there was some reason for it.

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