Healthy Mom After Divorce Podcast

37: The Just-World Fallacy: What Is It and Why Does It Matter For Your High-Conflict Divorce?

Sheryl Murphy Season 1 Episode 37

“But how can he do this to the kids? It just doesn’t make sense?”

Sound familiar? It’s ok, we’ve all been there.

On this 37th episode of the Healthy Mom After Divorce Podcast, I explain the cognitive bias called the Just-World Fallacy, why we have it and what we can do to free ourselves from its grips and move forward with our lives, even when the world doesn’t make sense.

00:00 – Intro
03:50 – What is the Just-World Fallacy?
06:10 – Why is it a problem?
07:13 – What strategies do we use to deal with it?
12:03 – How does knowing all this help us in our high-conflict divorce?

Find the full transcript at healthymomafterdivorce.com/37.

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