 In these situations, attributions of responsibility to the victim or harm-doer for the mishap will depend upon the severity of the outcomes of the mishap and the level of personal and situational similarity between the individual and victim.More responsibility will be attributed to the harm-doer as the outcome becomes more severe, and as personal or situational similarity decreases.An example of defensive attribution is the just-world hypothesis, which is where "good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people".