With increasing age, children explain wealth and poverty by referring to individual differences in work, effort, and intelligence rather than social-structural or political factors. Such explanations of inequality support a belief in a just world where the "losers" are viewed as obtaining their just due.
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Robert L. Leahy (1990) studied this question.
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