Just-World Fallacy: How Fairness Blames VictimsThe mental shortcut that protects the powerful.

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Behavior Manipulation

Understanding this cognitive bias helps you see how injustice is framed as a deserved outcome. The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things to bad people feels comforting. But this "just-world" thinking is a mental shortcut that can lead us to blame people for their own misfortune, from poverty to assault. This tactic is often used to deflect responsibility from perpetrators and discourage challenges to the status quo, preserving existing power structures by making them seem natural.