Introduction
1. Definition
The just world phenomenon is the affinity to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve. Because people want to believe that the world is fair, they will look for ways to explain or justify away injustice, often blaming the person in a situation who is actually the object.
1.1 Just-world hypothesis
The just world hypothesis is the theory that a person's actions are integrally inclined to bring morally fair and fitting significances to that person, to the end of all noble movements being finally rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished. In other words, the just-world hypotheses are the inclination to trait consequences to or imagine consequences as the result of a entire force that returns ethical stability. This belief usually suggests the reality of cosmic justice, destiny, divine providence, desert, stability, or order (Springer, 1984)
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Researches
2.1 Melvin Lerner
Lerner was provoked to study justice beliefs and the just world proposition in the perspective of social psychological analysis into damaging social and societal connections. Lerner saw his work as extending Stanley Milgram's work on obedience. He wanted to answer the …show more content…
A just world is one in which activities and situations have expectable, suitable magnitudes. These activities and situations are naturally individuals' manners or traits. The definite situations that correspond to positive consequences are socially determined by a society's rules and philosophies. Lerner presents the belief in a just world as functional it sustains the idea that one can influence the world in a foreseeable way. Belief in a just world meanings as a sort of "agreement" with the world regarding the consequences of behavior. This agrees people to plan for the upcoming and involve in actual, goal-driven behaviour (Lerner,
1. Definition
The just world phenomenon is the affinity to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve. Because people want to believe that the world is fair, they will look for ways to explain or justify away injustice, often blaming the person in a situation who is actually the object.
1.1 Just-world hypothesis
The just world hypothesis is the theory that a person's actions are integrally inclined to bring morally fair and fitting significances to that person, to the end of all noble movements being finally rewarded and all evil actions eventually punished. In other words, the just-world hypotheses are the inclination to trait consequences to or imagine consequences as the result of a entire force that returns ethical stability. This belief usually suggests the reality of cosmic justice, destiny, divine providence, desert, stability, or order (Springer, 1984)
Chapter ll
Researches
2.1 Melvin Lerner
Lerner was provoked to study justice beliefs and the just world proposition in the perspective of social psychological analysis into damaging social and societal connections. Lerner saw his work as extending Stanley Milgram's work on obedience. He wanted to answer the …show more content…
A just world is one in which activities and situations have expectable, suitable magnitudes. These activities and situations are naturally individuals' manners or traits. The definite situations that correspond to positive consequences are socially determined by a society's rules and philosophies. Lerner presents the belief in a just world as functional it sustains the idea that one can influence the world in a foreseeable way. Belief in a just world meanings as a sort of "agreement" with the world regarding the consequences of behavior. This agrees people to plan for the upcoming and involve in actual, goal-driven behaviour (Lerner,