The Belief in a Just World
A Fundamental Delusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11093399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | V Lee Hamilton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Belief in a Just World, Melvin J Lerner, 1980 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2067083 |
| OpenAlex | W2138325436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
1. The Belief in a Just World.- 2. The First Experiment: The Effect of Fortuitous Reward.- 3. The Second Experiment: Observers' Reactions to the Victim.- 4. The Third Experiment: The Martyred and Innocent Victims.- 5. Three Experiments That Assess the Effects of Sex and Educational Background of Observers, Experimenter and Observer Influence on One Another, and the Reactions of Informed and Nonimplicated Observers.- 6. Reactions to the Belief in a Just World Theory and Findings: The Nay-Sayers.- 7. Condemning the Victimized.- 8. The Assignment of Blame.- 9. The Response to Victimization: Extreme Tests of the Belief in a Just World.- 10. Who Believes in a Just World: Dimension or Style.- 11. Deserving versus Justice.- References
Delusion · Epistemology · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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Rape Myth Consistency and Gender Differences in Perceiving Rape Victims
Terror Management in the Courtroom
Free to blame? Belief in free will is related to victim blaming
Direct and indirect freedom in addiction
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Value, Attitude, and Belief Determinants of Willingness to Accept a Facility for the Homeless
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The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology
Collective guilt
Subjective Uncertainty Reduction through Self-categorization
Cross-national variation in determinants of climate change concern
Attentiveness to Religious/Spiritual Coping and Meaning Questions of Patients
False Consciousness Reconsidered
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Bounded justice
Thematic Structure of Descriptions of Violent Events Influences Perceptions of Responsiility
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The Labor of Lies
The Optimistic Trust Effect
When Your World Must Be Defended
Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
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Cross-cultural generalisability of the belief in a just world
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The Development and Preliminary Validation of the Belief in Divine Intervention Scale
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Restricting the scope of justice to justify discrimination
The Benny Hill effect
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Perceived system longevity increases system justification and the legitimacy of inequality
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Perceived legitimacy of intergroup status differences
The norm of internality in the explanation of psychological events
Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military‐based approaches to intergroup conflict
Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality
Observers' benefit finding for victims
Constructivism in social psychology
Stereotypes as justifications for prior intergroup discrimination
Retribution and forgiveness
Temporal distance as a determinant of just world strategy
Just world beliefs in an unjust society
What people think about an unjust event
Conceptualising and Measuring Empathy
Influence Over Observers of Structural Power
Turning to Prayer
A justification-suppression model of the expression and experience of prejudice
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Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
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Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession
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| Highly cited | No |
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