A lawyer defending a man in a rape trial tries to get women on the jury while the prosecutor tries to get men. The motive in both cases is that women jurors tend to make much harsher judgments of the woman who was raped than do male jurors. The most likely explanation for this gender difference is the:

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The just world hypothesis suggests that people believe the world is a fair and just place, and that bad things happen to people because they deserve it. In the case of rape, women may be more likely to believe that the victim did something to deserve the assault, leading to harsher judgments. Men, on the other hand, may be less likely to believe in a just world and therefore less likely to blame the victim for the assault.

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