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Altruism as a search for justice.

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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1968-07-01. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic Justice & Altruism (ethics).

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Culpable control and the psychology of blame.

TL;DR: A culpable control model is advanced to describe the conditions that encourage as well as mitigate blame and to assess the process by which blame and mitigation occur and its basic tenets are summarized.
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Positive mood and helping behavior: A test of six hypotheses.

TL;DR: The results support the focus of attention, separate process, social outlook, and mood maintenance hypotheses, and partially support the objective self-awareness and concomitance hypotheses.
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Rage and reason: the psychology of the intuitive prosecutor

TL;DR: This article explored the conditions under which experimentally primed anger influences both attributions of responsibility and the processes by which people make such attributions, concluding that people are best thought of as "intuitive prosecutors" who lower their thresholds for making attributions and recommending harsh punishment when they both witness a serious transgression of societal norms and believe that the transgressor escaped punishment.
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Equity Theory Revisited: Comments and Annotated Bibliography

TL;DR: This article provided an annotated bibliography of theoretical, review, and research papers, published and unpublished, on equity, and annotated the annotations for research papers describe the essential contents: tasks, independent and dependent variables, results, and, for populations of possible special interest, subject characteristics.
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Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim": compassion or rejection?

TL;DR: Under the guise of an experiment on the perception of emotional cues, 72 undergraduate female Ss observed a peer participating in a paired associate learning task and rejected and devalued the suffering victim when they believed that they would continue to see her suffer in a 2nd session, and when they were powerless to alter the victim's fate.
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Vicarious reinforcement and imitative learning.

TL;DR: Results from the Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance indicated that imitation was significantly influenced by response-consequences to the model (rewarded versus punished p), and additional research should be implemented in which the difference between performance and learning can be better assessed.
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