The Justice Motive in Everyday Life

by Edited by Michael Ross , Dale T. Miller

• ISBN13: 9780521802154
• ISBN10: 0521802156
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book contains new essays in honor of Melvin J. Lerner, a pioneer in the psychological study of justice. The contributors to this volume are internationally renowned scholars from psychology, business, and law. They examine the role of justice motivation in a wide variety of contexts, including workplace violence, affirmative action programs, helping or harming innocent victims and how people react to their own fate. Contributors explore fundamental issues such as whether people's interest in justice is motivated by self-interest or a genuine concern for the welfare of others, when and why people feel a need to punish transgressors, how a concern for justice emerges during the development of societies and individuals, and the relation of justice motivation to moral motivation. How an understanding of justice motivation can contribute to the amelioration of major social problems is also examined.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Introduction
Overview of the Volume	3	(7)
Michael Ross
Dale T. Miller
Pursuing the Justice Motive	10	(31)
Melvin Lerner
Theoretical Perspectives on the Justice Motive
Doing Justice to the Justice Motive	41	(22)
Leo Montada
The Justice Motive in Perspective	63	(16)
Riel Vermunt
Perverse Justice and Perverse Norms: Another Turn of the Screw	79	(12)
Jose-Miguel Fernandez-Dols
Justice Motivation and Moral Motivation	91	(18)
C. Daniel Batson
Victim Derogation and the Belief in a Just World
Why We Reject Innocent Victims	109	(18)
Carolyn L. Hafer
Helping and Rationalization as Alternative Strategies for Restoring the Belief in a Just World: Evidence from Longitudinal Change Analyses	127	(22)
Barbara Reichle
Manfred Schmitt
Violence in the Workplace: The Explanatory Strength of Social (In)Justice Theories	149	(19)
Herman Steensma
The Just World and Winston Churchill: An Approach/Avoidance Conflict about Psychological Distance When Harming Victims	168	(21)
Robert Folger
S. Douglas Pugh
The Justice Motive and Prosocial Behavior
Just World, Social Responsibility, and Helping Behavior	189	(15)
Hans W. Bierhoff
Policies to Redress Social Injustice: Is the Concern for Justice a Cause Both of Support and of Opposition?	204	(22)
D. Ramona Bobocel
Leanne S. Son Hing
Camilla M. Holmvall
Mark P. Zanna
Justice and Empathy: What Motivates People to Help Others?	226	(25)
Steven L. Blader
Tom R. Tyler
The Justice Motive and Altruistic Helping: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Europe	251	(20)
Janusz Reykowski
Acting Righteously: The Influence of Attitude, Moral Responsibility, and Emotional Involvement	271	(20)
Joseph de Rivera
Elena Gerstmann
Lisa Maisels
Justice-based Reactions to Transgressors
Redistributive Justice: Its Social Context	291	(23)
Neil Vidmar
Just Punishments: Research on Retributional Justice	314	(20)
John Darley
Deservingness, Entitlement, and Reactions to Outcomes	334	(16)
N. T. Feather
Just World Processes in Demonizing	350	(15)
John H. Ellard
Christina D. Miller
Terri-Lynne Baumle
James M. Olson
Justice and Reaction to One's Own Fate
Belief in a Just World as a Personal Resource in School	365	(17)
Claudia Dalbert
Jurgen Maes
Awakening to Discrimination	382	(15)
Faye J. Crosby
Stacy A. Ropp
Deservingness and Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Citizen Encounters with the Police	397	(19)
Jason Sunshine
Larry Heuer
Fairness Judgments as Cognitions	416	(17)
E. Allan Lind
Name Index	433	(8)
Subject Index	441