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But a jury showed little sympathy for the victim. The accused rapist was acquitted. We all feel she asked for it [by] the way she was dressed, said the jury foreman. The verdict of the jurors in the rape trial may have been influenced by a widespread tendency to believe that victims of misfortune deserve what happens to them. The need to see victims as the recipients of their just deserts can be explained by what psychologists call the Just World Hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, people have a strong desire or need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve. Such a belief plays an important function in our lives since in order to plan our lives or achieve our goals we need to assume that our actions will have predictable consequences.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 07:33:40 +0000

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