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“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
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“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).”
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“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.”
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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
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- W4234878346
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- 2,656
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- FWCI
- 18.59
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
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- 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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