The Belief in a Just World

Lerner, M. J. (1962). The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion. Plenum Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1962

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5

ISBN

9781489904508

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5

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psychology

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Primes

• Fundamental Attribution Error

  • This sourceJust-world hypothesis; motivation-based attribution bias relevant to the motivated-reasoning account of FAE (bibliography only; named inline).

Domain-specific

• Just-World Hypothesis
  • The just-world hypothesis (Melvin J. Lerner, tested experimentally from the early 1960s — most famously in Lerner and Simmons's 1966 innocent-victim study — and theorized at length in his 1980 book)

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