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The Justice Motive in Everyday Life
Michael Ross,Dale T. Miller +1 more
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Ross and Miller as mentioned in this paper argue that the belief in a just world is a cause both of support and opposition to the pursuit of justice, and that the desire for justice is linked with the desire to help others.Abstract:
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Michael Ross and Dale Miller 2. Pursuing the justice motive Melvin J. Lerner Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on the Justice Motive: 3. Doing justice to the justice motive Leo Montada 4. The justice motive in perspective Riel Vermunt 5. Perverse justice and perverse norms: another turn of the screw Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols 6. Justice motivation moral motivation C. Daniel Batson Part III. Victim Derogation and the Belief in a Just World: 7. Why we reject innocent victims Carolyn L. Hafer 8. Helping and rationalization as alternative strategies for restoring the belief in a just world: evidence from longitudinal change analyses Barbara Reichle and Manfred Schmitt 9. Violence in the workplace: the explanatory strength of social (in)justice theories Herman Steensma 10. The just world and Winston Churchill: an approach/avoidance conflict about psychological distance when harming victims Robert Folger and S. Douglas Pugh Part IV. The Justice Motive and Pro-Social Behavior: 11. Just world, social responsibility, and helping behavior Hans-Werner Bierhoff 12. Policies to redress social injustice: is the concern for justice a cause both of support and opposition? D. Ramona Bobocel, Leanne S. Son Hing, Camilla M. Holmvall and Mark P. Zanna 13. Justice and empathy: what motivates people to help others? Steven L. Blader and Tom R. Tyler 14. The justice motive and altruistic helping: rescuers of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe Janusz Reykowski 15. Acting righteously: the influence of attitude, moral responsibility, and emotional involvement Joseph de Rivera, Elena Gerstmann and Lisa Maisels Part V. Justice-based Reactions to Transgressors: 16. Retributive justice: its social context Neil Vidmar 17. Just punishments: research on retributional justice John Darley 18. Deservingness, entitlement, and reactions to outcomes N. T. Feather 19. Just world processes in demonizing John H. Ellard, Christina D. Miller, Terri-Lynne Baumle and James M. Olson Part VI. Justice and Reaction to One's Own Fate: 20. Belief in a just world as personal resource in school Claudia Dalbert and Jurgen Maes 21. Awakening to discrimination Faye J. Crosby and Stacy A. Ropp 22. Deservingness and perceptions of procedural justice in citizen encounters with the police Jason Sunshine and Larry Heuer 23. Fairness judgments as cognitions E. Allan Lind.read more
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