The Just-World Hypothesis: Understanding Victim Blame
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The Just-World Hypothesis: Understanding Victim Blame

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Discover why individuals rationalize victimization through the lens of the Just-World Hypothesis and its psychological implications.

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−In the spring of 1965, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo named…
+In the mid-1960s, a faculty member at the University of Kentucky named Melvin…
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−Lerner and Simmons (1965): The Foundational Experiment
+Lerner and Simmons (1966): The Foundational Experiment
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−In 1973, Elaine Jones and Elliot Aronson published a study
+In 1973, Cathaleene Jones and Elliot Aronson published a study

Why this is better

Body text and bibliography were already correctly fixed (University of Kentucky, faculty member, Lerner and Simmons 1966, Cathaleene Jones), but the FAQ JSON-LD block still had a question titled with the stale 1965 date, and the post excerpt also independently asserted the stale 1965 date. Both fixed to be consistent with the corrected body content and re-verified live after PUT. A separate, legitimate 1998 Lerner & Lerner cancer-patients study at University of Waterloo elsewhere in the body was correctly left untouched as it is a different, real citation.

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