 A recent study by Shariff et al. (2014), for instance, found that people with weaker belief in free will endorsed less retributive attitudes regarding punishment of criminals, yet their consequentialist attitudes about punishment were unaffected. They also found that learning about the neural bases of human behavior, either through reading popular science articles or taking an undergraduate neuroscience course, similarly reduced people’s support for retributive punishment. The same connection between belief in free will and increased punitiveness has also been found in a number of other studies (see, e.g., Carey &amp; Paulhus 2013; Clark et al. 2014; Aspinwall, Brown, &amp; Tabery 2012; Pizarro, Uhlmann, &amp; Salovey 2003). Additional studies have found that where belief in free will is strongest we find increased religiosity and increased commitment to a cluster of potentially dangerous political beliefs and attitudes such as Just World Belief and Right Wing Authoritarianism (see Carey &amp; Paulhus 2013; Nadelhoffer &amp; Tocchetto 2013). The belief in a just world, for instance, is the belief that we live in a world where people generally get what they deserve. But stronger commitment to just world belief is problematic since it correlates with the tendency to blame the victims of misfortunes for their own fate (see Lerner &amp; Simmons 1966; Lerner 1965, 1980; Lerner &amp; Miller 1978; Wagstaff 1983; Furnham &amp; Gunter 1984; Furnham 2003; Harper &amp; Manasse 1992; Montada 1998).