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The Justice Motive in Everyday Life by Ross, Michael, Miller, Dale T

“…This book contains essays in honour of Melvin J. Lerner, a pioneer in the psychological study of justice. The contributors to this volume are internationally…”
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Deservingness, Entitlement, and Reactions to Outcomes by Feather, N. T.

“…When we say that a person is entitled to some outcome, do we also mean that the person deserves that outcome? Can deservingness (or desert and deservedness –…”
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The Justice Motive in Persepective by Vermunt, Riël

“…IntroductionA major topic in the study of social justice is the description and explanation of why people behave justly. In many discussions, the justice…”
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Policies to Redress Social Injustice: Is the Concern for Justice a Cause Both of Support and of Opposition? by Bobocel, D. Ramona, Hing, Leanne S. Son, Holmvall, Camilla M., Zanna, Mark P.

“…As documented by the research in the current volume, people are profoundly affected by social injustice. Fortunately, efforts to remedy many forms of social…”
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Why We Reject Innocent Victims by Hafer, Carloyn L.

“…In our daily lives, we are often confronted with individuals who suffer through little fault of their own. Common activities such as reading the newspaper,…”
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Just World, Social Responsibility, and Helping Behavior by Bierhoff, Hans-werner

“…This chapter attempts to integrate research on belief in a just world and social responsibility. First, the concepts of belief in a just world and social…”
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Overview of the Volume by Ross, Michal, Miller, Dale T.

“…This volume begins with an intellectual history written by Mel Lerner, to whom the book is dedicated. Mel is a major founder of the study of justice in…”
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Justice Motivation and Moral Motivation by Batson, C. Daniel

“…What is the relationship between the justice motive, so brilliantly described by Lerner, and moral motivation? Does one subsume the other? Dominant views…”
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Retributive Justive: Its Socical Context by Vidmar, Neil

“…As for the social character of [penal] reaction, it comes from the social nature of the offended sentiments. Because they are found in all consciences, the…”
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Justice and Empathy: What Motivates People to Help Others? by Blader, Steven L., Tyler, Tom R.

“…A core premise of the social psychology of justice is that people's attitudes, feelings, and behaviors are shaped by their subjective judgments about what is…”
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The Just World and Winston Churchill: An Approach/Avoidance Conflict about Psychological Distance When Harming Victims by Folger, Robert, Pugh, S. Douglas

“…How do people respond when they observe a victim's undeserved suffering, such as when competent, hardworking employees are laid off for reasons that have…”
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Helping and Rationalization as Alternative Strategies for Restoring the Belief in a Just World: Evidence from Longitudional Change Analyses by Reichle, Barbara, Schmitt, Manfred

“…The need for justice is a core construct of Melvin Lerner's just world theory (Lerner, 1970, 1980). According to this theory, human beings want to believe that…”
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The Justice Motive and Altruistic Helping: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Europe by Reykowski, Janusz

“…There are good reasons to contend that the existence of a moral order is an important precondition for predictability of the social world and meaningfulness of…”
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Deservingness and Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Citizen Encounters with the Police by Sunshine, Jason, Heuer, Larry

“…Distributive justice theories (e.g., relative deprivation, equity, justice motive theory) have consistently postulated that disputants' satisfaction with the…”
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Doing Justice to the Justice Motive by Montada, Leo

“…In 1977, Melvin Lerner's article “The Justice Motive: Some Hypotheses as to Its Origins and Forms” was published in the Journal of Personality. In my view this…”
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Violence in the Workplace – The Explanatory Strength of Social (In)Justice Theories by Steensma, Herman

“…IntroductionViolence is one of the most troubling issues facing many organizations today. The Second European Survey on Working Conditions, based on 16,000…”
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Perverse Justice and Perverse Norms: Another Turn of the Screw by Fernández-dols, José-miguel

“…IntroductionWhat kind of ethical impact can be claimed for social psychology? For a European, this question is important. The ancestors of European social…”
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Just World Processes in Demonizing by Ellard, John H., Miller, Christina D., Baumle, Terri-lynne, Olson, James M.

“…There has been steady growth in recent years in psychologists' interest in phenomena that have long been the concern of moral philosophers, legal scholars, and…”
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Fairness Judgements as Cognitions by Lind, E. Allan

“…Thirty years ago, at the beginning of the Thibaut and Walker project on procedural justice, the psychology of justice was a relatively cognitive undertaking…”
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Just Punishments: Research on Retributional Justice by Darley, John

“…Famously, Lerner postulated that people have a belief in a just world. One expression of this belief is “what people get is what they deserve in life.” I can…”
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