August 01, 2014
Research Finding :
" When Misfortune Happens to Us, We Believe We Deserve It "
Experiment :
Research participants who were informed they had gotten an unlucky break and would have to LOSE £3, rather than WIN the same amount, subsequently viewed themselves significantly MORE negatively and believed they were more deserving of bad outcomes !!
Why ?
Random misfortune damages people’s self-esteem ! This low self-esteem, which can lead to self-defeating beliefs and behaviors !
Where does it come from ?
It stems from people’s NEED to believe that the " world is fair just and predictable " and that bad fortune happens to those who deserve it, the researchers say.
Conclusion : Bad things happens to good people and vice versa . The world is not ALWAYS fair . Randomness and order, both are interwoven.
SOURCE: Making Sense of Misfortune: Deservingness, Self-Esteem, and Patterns of Self-Defeat & Research by a team led by Mitchell J. Callan of the University of Essex in the UK. Courtesy : HBR /
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