{"id":58610,"date":"2025-11-12T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/belief-in-a-just-world\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:08:51","slug":"belief-in-a-just-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/belief-in-a-just-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Belief in a Just World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive distortion is a socio-psychological phenomenon expressed in the belief that the world is arranged fairly and people in life get what they deserve in accordance with their personal qualities and actions: good people are rewarded, and bad people are punished. Such thinking is calming, because most people a priori consider themselves good, which means that nothing bad will happen to them in a fair world. And if the world is unfair, then everyone is in danger, including them \u2013 frightening, depriving them of a sense of security and comfort.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive distortion is a socio-psychological phenomenon expressed in the belief that the world is arranged fairly and people in life get what they deserve in accordance with their personal qualities and actions: good people are rewarded, and bad people are punished. Such thinking is calming, because most people a priori consider themselves good, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-social-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}