Jim's best friend denise was sexually assaulted, and jim was shocked to hear of the event. he was even more surprised by how many people assumed that denise must have done something to provoke the attack. these people are making an attribution that seems to make the world seem safer and saner, according to the:

The just-world hypothesis

Explanation:

The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is an assumption or bias that whatever someone does or how they behave will likely bring a moral fair and deserving consequences to them; which at the end of it all those who do good will reap good and those with evil action will get their punishment.

This hypothesis believe that one reap what they saw hence what ever happens to someone will be due to what they have done or how they have behaved that led to such an outcome.

answer; ///he could not explain why the continents drifted;