What Is the Just-World Phenomenon

question 216

Multiple Choice

What is the just-world phenomenon?

• A) favoring our own group
• B) the idea that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame for negative events
• C) the tendency to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get
• D) the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

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