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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
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- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
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- 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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