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The Just-World Fallacy
Seventy-two women sat in the dark at the University of Kansas, their eyes fixed on a flickering television monitor. Through the grainy feed, they watched a fellow student named Jill strapped into a chair in the adjacent room. Jill was participating in a learning task, and every time she made a mistake, 1,500 volts of electricity surged through her body.
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The women in the dark could see Jill writhe. They could hear her sharp intakes of breath and her eventual pleas for the…
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