The Justice Motive in Social Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Adapting to Scarcity and Change (I)

      • Sally C. Lerner

      Pages 3-10

   3. The Justice Motive in Human Relations

      • Melvin J. Lerner

      Pages 11-35

3. Basic Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Origins and Development of the Sense of Justice

      1. Theoretical Issues in the Development of Social Justice

         • Carolyn H. Simmons

         Pages 41-55

      2. The Development of Justice and Self-Interest during Childhood

         • William Damon

         Pages 57-72

      3. Morality and the Development of Conceptions of Justice

         • Rachel Karniol, Dale T. Miller

         Pages 73-89

   3. New Perspectives on the Social Dimensions of Justice

      1. Social Change and the Contexts of Justice Motivation

         • Edward E. Sampson

         Pages 97-124

      2. Retributive Justice

         • Robert Hogan, Nicholas P. Emler

         Pages 125-143

      3. The Social Psychology of Punishment Reactions

         • Dale T. Miller, Neil Vidmar

         Pages 145-172

      4. Microjustice and Macrojustice

         • Philip Brickman, Robert Folger, Erica Goode, Yaacov Schul

         Pages 173-202

4. Institutional Settings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Close Relations

      1. The Changing Longevity of Heterosexual Close Relationships

         • Ellen Berscheid, Bruce Campbell

         Pages 209-234

      2. Giving and Receiving

         • Louise H. Kidder, Michele A. Fagan, Ellen S. Cohn

         Pages 235-259

      3. The Exchange Process in Close Relationships

         • John G. Holmes

         Pages 261-284

   3. Justice in the Marketplace

      1. The Justice of Distributing Scarce and Abundant Resources

         • Jerald Greenberg

         Pages 289-316

      2. The Allocation and Acquisition of Resources in Times of Scarcity

         • Andre de Carufel

         Pages 317-341

      3. Justice in “The Crunch”

         • Morton Deutsch

         Pages 343-357

      4. The Relationship of Economic Growth to Inequality in the Distribution of Income

         • Thomas D. Cook, Barbara Pearlman

         Pages 359-389

This volume was conceived out of the concern with what the imminent future holds for the "have" countries ... those societies, such as the United States, which are based on complex technology and a high level of energy consumption. Even the most sanguine projection includes as base minimum relatively rapid and radical change in all aspects of the society, reflecting adaptation or reactions to demands created by poten­ tial threat to the technological base, sources of energy, to the life-support system itself. Whatever the source of these threats-whether they are the result of politically endogeneous or exogeneous forces-they will elicit changes in our social institutions; changes resulting not only from attempts to adapt but also from unintended consequences of failures to adapt. One reasonable assumption is that whatever the future holds for us, we would prefer to live in a world of minimal suffering with the greatest opportunity for fulfilling the human potential. The question then becomes one of how we can provide for these goals in that scenario for the imminent future ... a world of threat, change, need to adapt, diminishing access to that which has been familiar, comfortable, needed.

• Institution
• Motive
• morality
• psychology
• social change
• social justice
• social psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Melvin J. Lerner

• Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Sally C. Lerner

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