The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental DelusionThe "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 the