For Whom is this World Just?: Sexual Orientation and AIDS

The “just world” hypothesis has been used to explain victim blaming, or the attributions that people have for why a person has been victimized. Based on some of the premises of the just world hypothesis it was predicted that people would be more likely to attribute blame to a gay man with AIDS than...

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Published in:Journal of applied social psychology 1992-02, Vol.22 (3), p.248-259
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Attitudes
Blame
Fear
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HIV
Homosexuals
Hypotheses
Social justice
Tolerance
Victims
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