1. Limited studies have examined ideological correlates of the belief in a just world . 2. One study tested beliefs in a just world of students in 12 countries. 3. Much research conducted shows that beliefs in a just world are evident cross-culturally. 4. Lerner explained that people use strategies to eliminate threats to their belief in a just world . 5. Studies have also found belief in a just world to be correlated with aspects of religiousness. 6. Correlational studies also show that beliefs in a just world are correlated with internal locus of control. 7. There are a few modes of reinterpretation that could make an event fit the belief in a just world . 8. Lerner hypothesized that the belief in a just world is crucially important for people to maintain for their own well-being. 9. In the early 1970s, social psychologists Zick Rubin and Letitia Anne Peplau developed a measure of belief in a just world . 10. Thus, the consequences of belief in a just world may be related to or explained in terms of particular patterns of causal attribution.
