Karma,+or+more+just-world+phenomenom

=**Just World Phenomenon**=


 * Definition:** Describes a selective thinking in which people believe that world they live in is one in which situations occur as the result of some universal force, choosing justice or injustice.

Psychologist Melvin Lerner is the man whose work contributed to making the world hypothesis which was a focus of social psychological research. He studied justice beliefs and how the just world hypothesis in into negative social and societal interactions. He saw his work as continued from Stanley Milgram's work on obedience. A lot of his questions related to the work of answering questions about mostly suffering and bad things. He also intended to seek out the feelings of men who got choose and how they felt about there positive feelings. of this research led to Lerner starting experiments for what was known as the the just world hypothesis. His research eventually ended and he believed that a lot of the reactions were people who believed that this phenomenon was directly affected to there care in maintaining there personal well being. []
 * Research Related to Concept:**

- This idea is directly tied to Karma. The belief that if one is bad then bad things will happen, but be good and good things will happen. Most people tie the just world phenomenon themselves, most people want to remain right in the middle of the spectrum so that [] [| http://peterdaou.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/balance-justice.jpg]
 * Examples in Pop Culture:**

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 * Examples of concept in pop culture:**

This video ties into karma and the just world hypothesis because even though Earl didn't do anything wrong he hung out with someone who did bad things and therefore both of them had bad things happen to them.


 * Connection to NHS Culture/Life:**


 * If you cheat on a test then maybe you won't be caught but later the world will work out the justice itself
 * If you skip on senior skip day then you will miss valuable information for the next weeks test and because of that you end up failing.