As he sipped a $20 cocktail at the bar of a five-star restaurant,Jevon watched the television where a news story about a man who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for committing a crime was being covered.He thought to himself,"That guy sure deserved what he got.Why can't he be like me? If you're a good person and you play by the rules,you get rewarded.When you are a bad person,you get what you deserve!" Jevon is demonstrating the __________ hypothesis.

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Jevon is exhibiting the just-world hypothesis, which suggests that good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people. Jevon believes that the man on the news deserved his sentence because he was a bad person who committed a crime, and that if you play by the rules, you will be rewarded.

As He Sipped a $20 Cocktail at the Bar of a Five-Star