“…According to the just world hypothesis (Lerner, 1980), the extent to which people believe that the world is a just place helps to explain their reaction to victims. Considering that other studies have demonstrated the importance of the victim's social category for an adequate understanding of the just world hypothesis (Aguiar, Vala, Correia, & Pereira, 2008;Correia et al, 2012;Correia, Alves, Morais, & Ramos, 2015;Correia, Vala, & Aguiar, 2007;Halabi, Statman, & Dovidio, 2015), the present research aimed to investigate the moderating role of the victim's social category in the relation between the explicit and implicit dimensions of Belief in Just World (BJW), on the one hand, and victim blaming, on the other.…”