Just world research and the attribution process
Looking back and ahead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4423767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melvin J Lerner (University of Waterloo), Dale T Miller |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1030-1051 |
| Publication date | 1978-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0033-2909.85.5.1030 |
| OpenAlex | W4234764583 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 554 |
| References cited | 47 |
Attribution · Cognitive psychology · Process (computing) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Ethics in medical practice · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology
Unity in Knowing and Doing
Attitudes Towards Justifying Intimate Partner Violence Among Married Women in Bangladesh
Wealth Paradox
Error management theory and the ability to bias belief and doubt
Language, Fallacies, and Mindlessness-Mindfulness in Social Interaction
Victim Blaming bei Cyberbullying. Der Einfluss der Privatsphäreeinstellung auf die Opferschuldzuschreibung
Betrayal trauma and borderline personality characteristics
The Impact of Indigenous Identity and Treatment Seeking Intention on the Stigmatization of Substance Use
Investigating how ostracizing others affects one’s self-concept
Emotional disclosure and victim blaming
Two studies of children of divorce
Justiça distributiva
Kui ongi tõsi, siis ise süüdi!” Seksuaalvägivallaga seonduvad stereotüübid ühe Eesti laste ja noorte veebifoorumi teemaalgatustes ja vastustes
Examining the psychology of practitioners, institutions and structures
Victims of the Itaewon crowd crush died twice
Let me count the ways
The Effects of Conflict with Mothers‐in‐Law on the Psychological Well‐Being and Marital Adjustment of Korean Daughters‐in‐Law
Discrimination in the 21st century
The Social and Psychological Impact of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Think‐Leader—Think‐Who?’ The Role of Motivated Closed‐Mindedness and Positive Intergroup Contact on Secondary Transfer Effect
The Belief in a Just World and the 'Heroic Motive
The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology
Impact of Personal Justice Perceptions of Students at the Faculty of Sport Sciences on Their Decision Making Level
Moral breakdowns and their (failed) repair
Counterfactual thinking
Aproximaciones cognitivas a la investigación sobre el delirio persecutorio
Prévalence du trouble de stress post-traumatique chez des chauffeurs d’autobus
Words as Weapons?When Do They Wound? Investigations of Harmful Speech
Direct Action and Political Culture
Causal Attributions of Workplace Gender Equality, Just World Belief, and the Self/Other Distinction
Well-being and belief in a just world among rest home residents
Effect of Belief in a Just World on Daily Living Activities of Nursing Home Residents
Gender Differences in Reactions to Female Victims
Belief in a Just World or Self-Serving Strategy
Working Through the Trauma of Sexual Assault in an Undergraduate Class
Blame and Adjustment Among Women Sexually Abused as Children
Looking to the Future
La interacción comunicativa como representación
Stress and the Decision to Change Oneself
Education and Causal Attributions
When Effort is Threatening
A fair go? How belief in a just world shaped attitudes, intentions, and behaviors before and after the Australian referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament
Building Politics into Psychology
Left-Right Ideological Differences in Blaming Victims
Attribution Theory and Arab Images of the Gulf War
H uman R ights in the C ollege C lassroom
Conceptualisation of the body for people living with HIV
Preferred Solutions to the Energy Crisis as a Function of Causal Attributions
Derogation of an innocent victim as a function of authoritarianism and involvement
Predicting alternative strategies for preserving a belief in a just world
Morality's role in the Black Sheep Effect
Ideas about causation in philosophy and psychology
Hindsight
Motivational biases in the attribution of responsibility for an accident
Socialpsychological Processes Underlying Attitudes Toward Legal Punishment
A Millennial Challenge
Fighting for our sisters
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs
Terror management and attributions of blame to innocent victims
Making sense of misfortune
Procedural justice as autonomy regulation
Moral cleansing as hypocrisy
Attributions of Blame for Marital Violence
The Effect of Self-Relevance on Judgments of Moderate and Severe Disciplinary Encounters
Perceptions, Attributions and Policy in the Economic Domain
Beliefs About the Nature of Sex/Gender and Ethnic Inequality
Early social behaviors and the trajectory of peer victimization across the school years
Metaphors in motivation and attribution
Perception of Economic Distributive Justice
Political Identification and Perceptions of Homelessness
The Effects of Morally Reframed Messages on White Individuals’ Attitudes Toward White Privilege
The Influence of Physical Attractiveness on Belief in a Just World
Association between Just World Beliefs and Perceptions of Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors
Reason and Cause
Social Justice
Interpersonal Stratification
The Justice Concept in Social Psychology
Attribution of Responsibility
Justice and the Awareness of Social Entities11The preparation of this chapter and of the research reported in Section IV. B. was supported in part by NSF Grant BNS 78-26380 and by a grant from the Trinity University Faculty Research and Development Council.
Equity and Social Exchange11The senior author would like to thank the London School of Economics for providing an appropriate intellectual environment for the initial phase of this effort, and NSF (NSF Grant 77-03862) and the University Faculty Research Committee for financial assistance during the preparation of this chapter.
Belief in a Just World
Attribution Theory
Perceiving Justice
Social Beliefs and Attitudes
In the wake of 9/11
Heuristics and Biases
Norm theory
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence
Psychiatric and Cognitive Effects of War in Former Yugoslavia
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning
The folk psychology of souls
Personality traits and the eye of the beholder
Individual differences in reasoning
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment
Victim Derogation and Victim Enhancement as Alternate Routes to System Justification
Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness
Support theory
Reactions to Victims of Life Crises
The hot hand in basketball
Self-perception
Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Who Believes in a Just World
An American Dilemma
Religiousness and derogation of an innocent victim1
Changes in liking as a means of reducing cognitive discrepancies between self-esteem and aggression1
Effects of valence, severity, arid relevance on responsibility and dispositional attribution
Responsibility attribution
Role and justice considerations in the attribution of responsibility to a rape victim
An Attributional Analysis of Moral Judgments
Belief in a Just World and Reactions to Another's Lot
Empathic observation of an innocent victim
Negative expectancy and the choice of an aversive task
Effect on derogation of a victim of choosing to reduce his distress
Assignment of responsibility for an accident
Belief in a just world and altruistic behavior
Effects of perceived norms on attitudes and altruistic behavior toward a dependent other
Victim or perpetrator
Chance outcomes and the just world
Altruism and threat to a belief in a just world
Resistance to improper dependency relationships
The processes of causal attribution
Reactions to suffering of others under conditions of indirect responsibility
Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness
Observers' evaluations of the victim and the attacker in an aggressive incident
"Attributions of blame and coping in the "real world
Devaluation of innocent victims
Choosing to suffer as a consequence of expecting to suffer
The influence of the perceived causal locus of partner's dependence on the use of interpersonal power
Attribution of responsibility for a happy accident
Observers evaluation of a victim
Defensive attribution
Some determinants of perceived control
Justification and compensation
Effect of choice and locus of dependence on helping behavior
Victim derogation in the Lerner paradigm
Guilt, perceived injustice, and altruistic behavior
Effect of deception on reactions to a victim
Reactions to victims under conditions of situational detachment
"Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim
The illusion of control
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality
Changes in interpersonal perception as a means of reducing cognitive dissonance
The effects of expectancy on volunteering for an unpleasant experience
| Unique citing works | 532 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,79 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 483 |