In "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation," Drew Westen argues that advocates of health care reform turn many people against universal health care when they talk about it as a way to help the "uninsured" or "underinsured." This is because there is an underlying assumption that poor people are getting what they deserve. What do sociologists call this assumption?
A) disenfranchisement
B) the just-world hypothesis
C) class consciousness
D) the invisibility of poverty

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The assumption that poor people are getting what they deserve is known as the just-world hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests that people believe the world is generally fair and people get what they deserve, which leads to blaming the poor for their own poverty.

In "The Political Brain: the Role of Emotion in Deciding