Stumblers Who Commented On The Just-World Fallacy

girlboracay

Zick Rubin of Harvard University and Letitia Anne Peplau of UCLA have conducted surveys to examine the characteristics of people with strong beliefs in a just world. They found that people who have a strong tendency to believe in a just world also tend to be more religious, more authoritarian, more conservative, more likely to admire political leaders and existing social institutions, and more likely to have negative attitudes toward underprivileged groups. To a lesser but still significant degree, the believers in a just world tend to feel less of a need to engage in activities to change society or to alleviate plight of social victims.

- Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez from an essay at The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Posted on Jul 10, 2010

Skinke

Christian

It took me reading Fight Club a few years ago to realize this. I don't know if that's sad or not.

Posted on Dec 25, 2010

MegamanZX

From the page: There are anecdotal accounts of people seeing the prisoners of concentration camps for the first time and assuming they must have been terrible criminals.

I must assume this was YEARS ago

Posted on Dec 25, 2010

EmperorTurtle

Nugget the Turtle

Says "while fireman and policeman put in long hours for little pay." Uh, that's a generalization. And with the things some police are doing these days, they're lucky they get paid at all. I like psychology but keep the political bias out of it.

Posted on Aug 11, 2010

RagingHamster

Danny

This isn't a black and white issue, and the "facts" sway in the winds of context. I don't appreciate this article talking in absolutes, but the idea that many people convince themselves that the world is just, even when illogical assumptions must be made to believe so, is certainly interesting.

Posted on Jun 29, 2010