The Just-World Hypothesis: Understanding Victim Blame
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Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Concepts
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 11 July 2026
Suggested change
(1) "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..." (2) "Lerner published these findings in the <em>Journal of Personality and Social ..." -> "Lerner published these findings in the <em>Journal of Personality and Social ..." (3) "Lerner and Simmons (1965): The Foundational Experiment" -> "Lerner and Simmons (1966): The Foundational Experiment" (4) "In 1973, Elaine Jones and Elliot Aronson published a study" -> "In 1973, Cathaleene Jones and Elliot Aronson published a study"
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- The contribution is tied to a real, identified contributor, not an anonymous byline.
- It counts only because the publisher, When Notes Fly, accepted it. Self-claimed work earns nothing.
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