The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion

by Melvin Lerner

Book Overview

The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only a sense of orderli- ness or predictability, but also the compelling experience of appropriateness ex- pressed in the typically implicit judgment, "Yes, that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489904506
• ISBN13: 9781489904508
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"