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The justice motive in everyday life : [essays in honor of Melvin J. Lerner] /

The justice motive is a paradox. It can promote acts of great heroism as well as heinous crimes. This book describes how a concern for justice can affect people's judgments and behaviors. The contributors explain why people are motivated to believe in a just world and describe the role this bel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lerner, Melvin J., 1929-, Ross, Michael, 1944-, Miller, Dale T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Overview of the Volume / Michael Ross and Dale T. Miller
  • 2. Pursuing the Justice Motive / Melvin Lerner
  • Theoretical Perspectives on the Justice Motive
  • 3. Doing Justice to the Justice Motive / Leo Montada
  • 4. The Justice Motive in Perspective / Riël Vermunt
  • 5. Perverse Justice and Perverse Norms: Another Turn of the Screw / José-Miguel Fernández-Dols
  • 6. Justice Motivation and Moral Motivation / C. Daniel Batson
  • 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
  • The Justice Motive and Prosocial Behavior
  • 11. Just World, Social Responsibility, and Helping Behavior / Hans W. Bierhoff
  • 12. Policies to Redress Social Injustice: Is the Concern for Justice a Cause Both of Support and of Opposition? / D. Ramona Bobocel, Leanne S. Son Hing and 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
  • Justice-based Reactions to Transgressors
  • 16. Redistributive 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 and Terri-Lynne Baumle, and James M. Olson
  • Justice and Reaction to One's Own Fate
  • 20. Belief in a Just World as a Personal Resource in School / Claudia Dalbert and Jürgen 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.