Just-world fallacy
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title:
Just-world fallacy
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The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor. For example, the assumptions that noble actions will eventually be rewarded and evil actions will eventually be punished fall under this fallacy. In other words, the just-world fallacy is the tendency to attribute consequences to—or expect consequences as the result of— either a universal
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Hypothesis that a person's actions will have morally fair and fitting consequences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy
date created:
2004-07-25T07:51:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:51:08Z
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