Are victims also judged more positively if they say their lives are just
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4998341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hélder V Alves (0000-0003-3147-2441, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Mariana Mello Breyner (Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Sílvia Fontinha Nunes (Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Bruno Diogo Pereira (Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Luís Filipe Silva (0000-0002-0571-5457, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Joana Soares (0000-0003-4515-660X, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-80 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psicologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0874-2049 • E-ISSN: 2183-2471 |
| Publisher | Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17575/rpsicol.v29i2.1064 |
| OpenAlex | W2232815949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
Non-victims who express high versus low personal belief in a just world (PBJW) are judged as having more social value, both social utility (i.e., market value) and social desirability (i.e., affective value). Our goal was to test whether this pattern differed when the targets were presented as innocent or non-innocent victims of enduring suffering. A hundred and eighty-six participants of both sexes took part in our 2 (degree of PBJW expressed: high/low) X 3 (Target identity: innocent victim/ non-innocent victim/ non-victim) between-subjects experimental study. Participants rated the targets on four measures: positive/negative social utility/desirability. Targets were judged more positively and less negatively if they expressed high versus low PBJW, regardless of their being non-victims or (non-)innocent victims. This pattern is taken as further evidence that the expression of high PBJW is a judgment norm, that is, a socially valued discourse irrespective of it being true or untrue
Aesthetics · Just-world hypothesis · Political science · Social desirability · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
The Belief in a Just World
Stigma
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Normativeness and individualism
Victim’s innocence, social categorization, and the threat to the belief in a just world
Subtle and blatant prejudice in western Europe
"Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim
The Impact of Endorsing the Belief in a Just World on Social Judgments
The World is More Just for Me than Generally
The Effects of Belief in a Just World and Victim's Innocence on Secondary Victimization, Judgements of Justice and Deservingness
On the Normativity of Expressing the Belief in a Just World
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |