The Justice Motive in Everyday Life

This book describes how a concern for justice affects people's judgements and behaviours.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Michael Ross and Dale Miller; 2. Pursuing the justice motive Melvin J. Lerner; Part II. Theoretical Perspectives on the Justice Motive: 3. Doing justice to the justice motive Leo Montada; 4. The justice motive in perspective Riel Vermunt; 5. Perverse justice and perverse norms: another turn of the screw Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols; 6. Justice motivation; moral motivation C. Daniel Batson; Part III. Victim Derogation and the Belief in a Just World: 7. Why we reject innocent victims Carolyn L. Hafer; 8. Helping and rationalization as alternative strategies for restoring the belief in a just world: evidence from longitudinal change analyses Barbara Reichle and Manfred Schmitt; 9. Violence in the workplace: the explanatory strength of social (in)justice theories Herman Steensma; 10. The just world and Winston Churchill: an approach/avoidance conflict about psychological distance when harming victims Robert Folger and S. Douglas Pugh; Part IV. The Justice Motive and Pro-Social Behavior: 11. Just world, social responsibility, and helping behavior Hans-Werner Bierhoff; 12. Policies to redress social injustice: is the concern for justice a cause both of support and opposition? D. Ramona Bobocel, Leanne S. Son Hing, Camilla M. Holmvall and Mark P. Zanna; 13. Justice and empathy: what motivates people to help others? Steven L. Blader and Tom R. Tyler; 14. The justice motive and altruistic helping: rescuers of Jews in Nazi occupied Europe Janusz Reykowski; 15. Acting righteously: the influence of attitude, moral responsibility, and emotional involvement Joseph de Rivera, Elena Gerstmann and Lisa Maisels; Part V. Justice-based Reactions to Transgressors: 16. Retributive justice: its social context Neil Vidmar; 17. Just punishments: research on retributional justice John Darley; 18. Deservingness, entitlement, and reactions to outcomes N. T. Feather; 19. Just world processes in demonizing John H. Ellard, Christina D. Miller, Terri-Lynne Baumle and James M. Olson; Part VI. Justice and Reaction to One's Own Fate: 20. Belief in a just world as personal resource in school Claudia Dalbert and Jurgen Maes; 21. Awakening to discrimination Faye J. Crosby and Stacy A. Ropp; 22. Deservingness and perceptions of procedural justice in citizen encounters with the police Jason Sunshine and Larry Heuer; 23. Fairness judgments as cognitions E. Allan Lind.