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Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice

White, Cindel J.M., Norenzayan, Ara·2019·Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
DOI 10.1016/bs.aesp.2019.03.001
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  • Many people believe that the principle of karma causes good deeds to generate good outcomes, and bad deeds to generate bad outcomes, even across long time scales, across reincarnations and without the intervention of human agents of justice.

    “Many people believe that the principle of karma causes good deeds to generate good outcomes, and bad deeds to generate bad outcomes, even across long time scales, across reincarnations and without the intervention of human agents of justice (White & Norenzayan, 2019).”

    From Victim blaming and belief in karma (2024) · cites this paper as White & Norenzayan, 2019

  • Individual differences in belief in karma and belief in a just world are only moderately correlated.

    “Beliefs about karma may partly reflect intuitions about fairness that arise from general belief in a just world (Baumard & Chevallier, 2012), but individual differences in belief in karma and belief in a just world are only moderately correlated (Chobthamkit et al., 2022;White, Norenzayan, et al., 2019), and explicit belief in karma is also shaped by particular religious cultures and cognitive”

    From Victim blaming and belief in karma (2024) · cites this paper as White, Norenzayan, et al., 2019

  • Belief in karma may be most likely to encourage victim blaming in situations where a victim's past misdeeds or negative personality traits are highly salient, such as when observers are aware that a victim's current suffering resembles past suffering they have caused to others.

    “Belief in karma may be most likely to encourage victim blaming in situations where a victim's past misdeeds or negative personality traits are highly salient, such as when observers are aware that a victim's current suffering resembles past suffering they have caused to others (e.g.Taylor et al., 2022;White et al., 2020;White, Norenzayan, et al., 2019).”

    From Victim blaming and belief in karma (2024) · cites this paper as White, Norenzayan, et al., 2019

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Authors
White, C. J. M., & Norenzayan, A.
Affiliations
University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
White, Cindel J.M.
ORCID
White, Cindel J.M.
Venue
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier
Published
2019
Pages
1-63
ISSN
0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/bs.aesp.2019.03.001
OpenAlex
W2936501418
Cited by
54
References
238
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
FWCI
12.39
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
Keywords
karma, religious cognition, cultural evolution, magical thinking, sensemaking, meaning maintenance, psychological control, cross-cultural variability, causal judgment, rule compliance, prosocial behavior

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