zDom
Senior Master
The closest ive seen in the literature of anything close to karma is somthing called cumulative continuity. It was published in 1989 by Caspi, Bem, and Elder in the Journal of personality 57 (2), 375–406. Below is the abstract.
Basically it says that a persons behavior puts them into environments that reinforce that behavior, causing the consequences of said behavior to accumulate across the lifespan.
That makes sense. But karma is a much shorter way to say it
