Just World and the Emotional Defense of Self

Bibliographic Data

ID5339014
AuthorsHans I Jzerman (0000-0002-0990-2276, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Hans Ijzerman, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen (0000-0001-6236-0819)
Year2008
Volume39
Issue2
Pages117-120
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590
PublisherHogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1027/1864-9335.39.2.117
OpenAlexW2086170268
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This research examines how individuals with different affect regulation strategies cope with just-world threats. Our study demonstrated that individuals who poorly downregulate negative affect (a state-oriented style) more avidly attempt to defend a just world after this opportunity is offered via an authority figure when that belief of a just world was threatened than do individuals who successfully downregulate negative affect (an action-oriented style), after a filler task. Sizable differences thus exist in how individuals defend their just-world beliefs as a function of how people deal with their affective states

Just-world hypothesis · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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