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Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World

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Editors:
  1. Leo Montada

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

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  2. Melvin J. Lerner

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Social Justice (CISJ)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. An Overview

      • Melvin J. Lerner, Leo Montada
      Pages 1-7

  3. Advances in Research on Observers’ Reactions to Victims

    1. Immanent Justice and Ultimate Justice

      • Jürgen Maes
      Pages 9-40

    2. BJW and Self-Efficacy in Coping with Observed Victimization

      • Changiz Mohiyeddini, Leo Montada
      Pages 41-54

    3. How Do Observers of Victimization Preserve Their Belief in a Just World Cognitively or Actionally?

      • Barbara Reichle, Angela Schneider, Leo Montada
      Pages 55-64

  4. Innovative Extensions of BJW and Self-Experienced Injustices

    1. Individual Differences in the Belief in a Just World and Responses to Personal Misfortune

      • Carolyn L. Hafer, James M. Olson
      Pages 65-86

    2. Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Coping with an Unjust Fate

      • Claudia Dalbert
      Pages 87-105

    3. Belief in a Just World and Right-Wing Authoritarianism as Moderators of Perceived Risk

      • Alan J. Lambert, Thomas Burroughs, Alison L. Chasteen
      Pages 107-125

    4. The Belief in a Just World and Willingness to Accommodate among Married and Dating Couples

      • Isaac M. Lipkus, Victor Bissonnette
      Pages 127-140

  5. Analytic Perspectives for Assessing the Construct: Belief in a Just World

    1. Measuring the Beliefs in a Just World

      • Adrian Furnham
      Pages 141-162

    2. Eight Stages in the Development of Research on the Construct of Belief in a Just World?

      • Jürgen Maes
      Pages 163-185

    3. Methodological Strategies in Research to Validate Measures of Belief in a Just World

      • Manfred J. Schmitt
      Pages 187-215

  6. Looking Back and Then Forward to the Next Generation of Research on BJW

    1. Belief in a Just World: A Hybrid of Justice Motive and Self-Interest?

      • Leo Montada
      Pages 217-246

    2. The Two Forms of Belief in a Just World

      • Melvin J. Lerner
      Pages 247-269

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 271-278
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About this book

The preparation of this volume began with a conference held at Trier University, approximately thirty years after the publication of the first Belief in a Just World (BJW) manuscript. The location of the conference was especially appropriate given the continued interest that the Trier faculty and students had for BJW research and theory. As several chapters in this volume document, their research together with the other contributors to this volume have added to the current sophistication and status of the BJW construct. In the 1960s and 1970s Melvin Lerner, together with his students and colleagues, developed his justice motive theory. The theory of Belief in a Just World (BJW) was part of that effort. BJW theory, meanwhile in its thirties, has become very influential in social and behavioral sciences. As with every widely applied concept and theory there is a natural develop­ mental history that involves transformations, differentiation of facets, and efforts to identify further theoretical relationships. And, of course, that growth process will not end unless the theory ceases to develop. In this volume this growth is reconstructed along Furnham's stage model for the development of scientific concepts. The main part of the book is devoted to current trends in theory and research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

    Leo Montada

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

    Melvin J. Lerner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World

  • Editors: Leo Montada, Melvin J. Lerner

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6418-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46030-2Published: 30 September 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3306-5Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-6418-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1906

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 278

  • Topics: Public Health

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