Tag: Attempts

How Belief in a Just World Attempts to Justify Racism

Before taking this academic journey, the phrase "just world beliefs," was foreign to me, uncharted territory. Frankly, I had no idea how someone's ideas about procedural or distributive justice impacted their racial attitudes. Whether someone believed the world was inherently just, tha...

Testing Your Sobriety

I’ve been sober since the end of 2016, but I made a lot of failed attempts to quit drinking before learning to stick with it. There was one particularly embarrassing ill-fated attempt from sometime in my early- or mid-twenties. (It’s been so long that I can’t remember the exact ...