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The Belief in a Just World

Lerner, Melvin J.·1980·Springer eBooks
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5
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  • Culture provides such a basis by providing values, standards and roles, conceptions of the world as just, and the possibility of immortality.

    “Fortunately, the culture provides such a basis by providing values, standards and roles, conceptions of the world as just (Lerner, 1980), and the possibility of immortality.”

    From The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory (1986) · cites this paper as Lerner, 1980

  • A second strategy is to distance oneself from the victim, as a way to reassure oneself that one's own life outcomes can still be governed by fairness principles that ensure bad things only happen to bad people.

    “A second strategy is to distance oneself from the victim, as a way to reassure oneself that even if bad things happened to someone else, one's own life outcomes can still be governed by fairness principles that ensure bad things only happen to bad people (Drout & Gaertner, 1994;Hafer, 2000;Lerner, 1980;Pinciotti & Orcutt, 2021).”

    From Victim blaming and belief in karma (2024) · cites this paper as Lerner, 1980

  • People are motivated to maintain a view that the world is just by re-appraising the suffering of ostensibly innocent victims to make bad experiences seem more deserved.

    “Classic research on belief in a Just World (Lerner, 1980;Lerner & Miller, 1978) argues that people are motivated to maintain a view that the world is just by re-appraising the suffering of ostensibly innocent victims to make bad experiences seem more deserved.”

    From Victim blaming and belief in karma (2024) · cites this paper as Lerner, 1980

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Authors
Lerner, M. J.
Affiliations
University of Waterloo (CA)
Corresponding author
Lerner, Melvin J.
Venue
Springer eBooks
Publisher
Springer US
Published
1980
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5
OpenAlex
W4234878346
Cited by
2,656
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 92 · 2025: 121 · 2024: 127 · 2023: 112 · 2022: 124 · 2021: 141 · 2020: 107 · 2019: 100 · 2018: 125 · 2017: 96 · 2016: 106 · 2015: 111 · 2014: 86 · 2013: 92 · 2012: 85
FWCI
18.59
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
Keywords
belief in a just world, meaning-making, coping with adversity, sense of justice, psychological adjustment

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