SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ATTRIBUTION ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS
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It helps us make sense of the world
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It is not accurate
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It can lead to victim blaming
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It cannot be proven
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Detailed explanation-1: -The just-world theory posits that when people do fall victim to misfortune, others tend to look for things that might explain their circumstances. In other words, people tend to look for something or someone to blame for unfortunate events.
Detailed explanation-2: -The firm belief in a just world yields a cognitive bias and can result in us justifying a person’s suffering through painting them negatively or minimizing their suffering altogether.
Detailed explanation-3: -Drawbacks Of Believing The Just-World Hypothesis Blame innocent victims, contributing to injustice in the world. Fail to feel empathy for or help people in need, such as homeless people, victims of crimes, or those with substance use disorder.
Detailed explanation-4: -The just world hypothesis is the belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get. This belief is a potential cause of the fundamental attribution error-the tendency to overestimate dispositional causes of an event and to underestimate situational causes.
Detailed explanation-5: -The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is the cognitive bias that assumes that “people get what they deserve” – that actions will have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor.