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Psychologists have found that people’s belief in a just world helps explain how they react to innocent victims of negative life circumstances. People become cognitively frustrated when presented with stories of victims who suffer through little fault of their own. They can deal with this frustration in two ways: they can conclude that the world is an unjust place, or they can decide the victim is somehow to blame. Most people reconcile their psychological distress by blaming the victim.
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‘Cognitive dissonance.’ Bad things happen to good people, which makes no sense, so to make it make sense, one decides that they must be bad people.
Melissa Harris-Perry (via fivedollarradio)
This kinda makes sense.
(via missgingerlee)
Reblogged from Ginger's Guide To Life & Other Important Stuff
