Life's hard lesson on fairness: It ain't

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Life ain't fair, baby. When you got it, you got it; and when you don't, you probably won't. Owwwwwch.

That's one of the take-aways from developmental psychology research conducted by Larisa Hussak and Andrei Cimpian. The bigger question their data leaves them to highlight, though, is why do we assume life is fair? Why do we cling so to this belief? Perhaps it owes to our ability to rationalize.

It almost seems to be human nature to explain away the inequalities we encounter as simply the way things are supposed to be. 

(to read the short article click on the above excerpt)