The Buffering-Boosting Hypothesis of the Expression of General and Personal Belief in a Just World for Successes and Failures

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ID5338865
AuthorsHélder V Alves (0000-0003-3147-2441, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Hélder Alves (0000-0001-8423-4653, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal), Isabel Correia (0000-0002-9982-280X, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Year2013
Volume44
Issue6
Pages390-397
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590
PublisherHogrefe Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1027/1864-9335/a000151
OpenAlexW2057980434
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited25

Although past research on the expression of belief in a just world (BJW) identified such statements as judgment norms, it has not ascertained whether their social value holds when individuals refer to good and bad outcomes. We investigated whether this is the case - a more stringent test of the "BJW as judgment norms" view. Participants judged the targets on two dimensions of social value: social desirability and social utility. We hypothesized, and found, that high versus low BJW buffered the negativity of the associated negative dimension(s) of discourses and boosted the positivity of the associated positive dimension(s) of discourses. This buffering-boosting pattern is discussed as revealing the system justification functions of the expression of BJW

Dimension (graph theory · Expression (computer science · Just-world hypothesis · Negativity effect · Social desirability · Test (biology · Value (mathematics · World Values Survey · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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