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Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead.
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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., & Miller, D. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- ORCID
- Miller, Dale T.
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1978-09
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1030-1051
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W2102050923
- Cited by
- 1,687
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 45 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 100 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 89 · 2019: 63 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 63 · 2014: 75 · 2013: 60 · 2012: 52
- FWCI
- 57.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (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 › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- just world hypothesis, attribution processes, attribution theory, perceived fairness, victim blaming
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