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The ________ hypothesis is the ideology common in the united states that people get the outcomes they deserve.

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Just-world hypothesis. It is an idea that a moral act is rewarded while an immoral act is punished. Also, when people fall in misfortune, instead of attributing the event as bad luck, they tend to find other people who will be blamed that caused the misfortune suffered by other people. 
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