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Throughout this book, I have been referring to the way “people” react. The clear implication, of course, is that we all need to and do believe that we live in a just world, where rules of deserving and justice apply. But not all people believe that they live in a just world and probably not everyone cares whether the world is just or not. And there probably are some people who would prefer to believe that the world is a miserable jungle run by cynical forces, and that tragedy, pathos, and emptiness are the central themes of human existence.
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Lerner, M.J. (1980). Who Believes in a Just World. In: The Belief in a Just World. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5_11
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