Belief in a Just World: A Hybrid of Justice Motive and Self-Interest?

1998 ◽  
pp. 217-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Montada
Keyword(s):  
Just World ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Justice Motive

The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin J. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Equity Theory ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Just World ◽  
World War ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Justice Motive ◽  
Normative Expectations

Beginning shortly after the 2nd World War, 3 lines of research associated with relative deprivation, equity theory, and just world contributed to the description of the influence of the justice motive in people's lives. By the late 1960s, these converging lines of research had documented the importance of people's desire for justice;nevertheless,contemporary social psychologists typically portray this justice-driven motivation as simplyn a maniftstation of self-interest. The explanation for this failure to recognize a distinct and important justice motive points to the widespread reliance on research methods that elicit the participant's thoughtfully constructed narratives or role-playing responses. According to recent theoretical advances, these methods generate responses that reflect normative expectations of rational self-interest, and fail to capture the important effects of the emotionally generated imperatives of the justice motive.

scholarly journals Does long-term focus increase victim-blaming? A study on the just-world hypothesis using the modified Stroop task

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Komáromy ◽  
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Réka János ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World ◽  
Modified Stroop ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Justice Motive ◽  
World Hypothesis

According to the just-world hypothesis (Lerner, 1980), people have an inherent need to believe that the world is a just place, where people generally get wha t they deserve. One of the benefits of holding this conviction is that it can promote investing in long-term goals. Acts of secondary victimization, such as blaming or derogating the victim can also be explained by just-world beliefs. This study looked at the effect of perceiving an innocent victim (a supposed threat to the belief in a just world) and long-term focus on the activation of the justice motive. We measured participants’ reaction times for justice-related and other stimuli with the help of the modified Stroop task (N=66). A significant difference between justice-related and neutral words has been found after being confronted with the threat to the belief in a just world, indicating that it indeed activated participants’ justice motive. Long-term focus did not have any significant effect. Higher levels of belief in a random world have been associated with greater victim-blaming tendencies.

Justice Motive Theory and the Study of Justice in Work Organizations: A Conceptual Integration

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ramona Bobocel ◽  
Carolyn L. Hafer
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Just World Beliefs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Just World ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Organizational Fairness ◽  
Justice Motive ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Stimulated by the articles in this special issue, we integrate justice motive theory into the study of organizational justice more broadly. We begin by considering a variety of ways that just-world beliefs could relate to perceptions of organizational fairness. Then, we discuss several implications that arise from incorporating the concept of deservingness (central to justice motive theory) more explicitly into the study of organizational justice. Next, we consider, from a justice motive perspective, how organizational fairness might have adverse effects on employees and organizations. Finally, we outline what justice motive theory implies for understanding how employees might react to experiences of organizational unfairness. Along the way, we identify novel directions for research on organizational justice that are suggested by the articles in the special issue and by justice motive theory in general.

scholarly journals Confronted with Bullying when You Believe in a Just World

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Voss ◽  
Leonard S. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Just World ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Justice Motive ◽  
The Relationship

Bullying has been recognized as a phenomenon that detrimentally affects the lives of many, and researchers continue to explore its various influences and correlates. We examined the relationship between the global belief in a just world (BJW; a person’s tendency to believe that life is fair and people get what they deserve) and reactions to bullying. Although BJW is undergirded by a justice motive, and although previous research found that global BJW is associated with more negative explicit attitudes toward bullying in the abstract, we hypothesized that strong global BJW beliefs would instead predict more tolerance and less condemnation when participants were presented with specific behaviors that could be construed as bullying. In two vignette-based experiments, global BJW (but not personal BJW), predicted less negative reactions to bullying, and did so regardless of whether the behavior was explicitly labeled as being a case of bullying. Implications of these results are discussed.

PERCEPTION OF ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: EXPLORING LEADING THEORIES

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sik Hung Ng ◽  
Michael W. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Just World ◽  
Interest Theory ◽  
Justice Perception ◽  
Self Interest

This study assessed the power of four theories in predicting individuals' perception of economic distributive justice: Self-interest Theory, Belief in a Just World, Attribution Theory, and Ideology. On the basis of a community survey of 487 adults, regression analyses showed that Self-interest Theory and Belief in a Just World provided moderate predictions of economic distributive justice perception; and Attribution Theory and Ideology yielded the strongest predictions. This finding has implications for future theoretical development.

scholarly journals Time Frame and Justice Motive: Future Perspective Moderates the Adaptive Function of General Belief in a Just World

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e80668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shengtao Wu ◽  
Robbie M. Sutton ◽  
Xiaodan Yan ◽  
Chan Zhou ◽  
Yiwen Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
Just World ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Justice Motive

Responsible gambling:The need for collaborative government, industry, community and consumer involvement

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Blaszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Responsible Gambling ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Harm Minimization ◽  
Harm Minimisation ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Gambling Expenditure ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Industry Community

Abstract. Background: Tensions exist with various stakeholders facing competing interests in providing legal land-based and online regulated gambling products. Threats to revenue/taxation occur in response to harm minimisation and responsible gambling policies. Setting aside the concept of total prohibition, the objectives of responsible gambling are to encourage and/or restrict an individual’s gambling expenditure in terms of money and time to personally affordable limits. Stakeholder responsibilities: Governments craft the gambling environment through legislation, monitor compliance with regulatory requirements, and receive taxation revenue as a proportion of expenditure. Industry operators on the other hand, compete across market sectors through marketing and advertising, and through the development of commercially innovative products, reaping substantial financial rewards. Concurrently, governments are driven to respond to community pressures to minimize the range of negative gambling-related social, personal and economic harms and costs. Industry operators are exposed to the same pressures but additionally overlaid with the self-interest of avoiding the imposition of more stringent restrictive policies. Cooperation of stakeholders: The resulting tension between taxation revenue and profit making, harm minimization, and social impacts creates a climate of conflict between all involved parties. Data-driven policies become compromised by unsubstantiated claims of, and counter claims against, the nature and extent of gambling-related harms, effectiveness of policy strategies, with allegations of bias and influence associated with researchers supported by industry and government research funding sources. Conclusion: To effectively advance policies, it is argued that it is imperative that all parties collaborate in a cooperative manner to achieve the objectives of responsible gambling and harm minimization. This extends to and includes more transparent funding for researchers from both government and industry. Continued reliance on data collected from analogue populations or volunteers participating in simulated gambling tasks will not provide data capable of valid and reliable extrapolation to real gamblers in real venues risking their own funds. Failure to adhere to principles of corporate responsibility and consumer protection by both governments and industry will challenge the social licence to offer gambling products. Appropriate and transparent safeguards learnt from the tobacco and alcohol field, it is argued, can guide the conduct of gambling research.

The Impact of Endorsing the Belief in a Just World on Social Judgments

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Testé ◽  
Samantha Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Just World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

The present research examines the social value attributed to endorsing the belief in a just world for self (BJW-S) and for others (BJW-O) in a Western society. We conducted four studies in which we asked participants to assess a target who endorsed BJW-S vs. BJW-O either strongly or weakly. Results showed that endorsement of BJW-S was socially valued and had a greater effect on social utility judgments than it did on social desirability judgments. In contrast, the main effect of endorsement of BJW-O was to reduce the target’s social desirability. The results also showed that the effect of BJW-S on social utility is mediated by the target’s perceived individualism, whereas the effect of BJW-S and BJW-O on social desirability is mediated by the target’s perceived collectivism.

Love and Self-Interest

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 481-482
Author(s):  
Graham L. Staines
Keyword(s):  
Self Interest

When Self-Interest and Altruism Conflict: Diffusion of Responsibility and Victim Retribution

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Wolosin ◽  
Steven J. Sherman ◽  
Clifford R. Mynatt
Keyword(s):  
Self Interest ◽  
Diffusion Of Responsibility
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