Just-world hypothesis
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The just world hypothesis describes a cognitive bias in which people believe that the world they live in is one in which situations occur as the result of a universal force of desert or justice.
See also
- Denial
- Fundamental attribution error
- Hindsight bias
- Best of all possible worlds
- Mean world syndrome
- System justification
- Theodicy
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