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Alissa Quart

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The Just World Hypothesis

According to the just world hypothesis, people are likely to find victims deserving of their fate. Melvin Learner did this experiment where a woman was given shocks, but it was an actor given false shocks. Part of it is protective as we're saying, it's like, okay, if that person getting those shocks behind that glass did something wrong or was somehow morally fallible, then that that will protect me from getting those shocks. Right. I mean, do you think of this? You know, right now as an American thing,  it feels like the Puritan American thing plus maybe theosophy, you know, think it, be it get it, just click your heels together

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