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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"belief in a just world"”.
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… thesis explores various factors that could explain variations in how acceptable police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were used in the current study. The vignettes manipulated two factors that were …
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Investigating a Potential Function of Belief in a Just World: Providing Purpose in Life as a Pathway to Subjective Well-Being
According to justice motive theory, individuals have a fundamental need to believe that the world is a just place where people get what they deserve, or to have belief in a just world (BJW; Lerner, 1977, 1980). There are several reasons why individuals need BJW that have been proposed in the extant …
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Just World Beliefs, Identity Development, and Social Justice Advocacy of Counselor Trainees
<p>This was the first study exploring the relationship between the belief in a just world, identity development, and social justice advocacy (SJA). A mixed methods design was conducted using a nationwide sample of ninety-seven counselor-in-training participants. Hypotheses included positive …
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Examining Factors that Influence Reactions to Human Trafficking
<p>Human trafficking involves the transportation or harboring of individuals under conditions of force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficking is a worldwide issue, and involves millions of individuals who cross all gender, racial, and ethnic lines. Previous research has shown that …
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Predictors of Bullying in an Adolescent School Sample
<p>Author's abstract: Bullying is a pervasive problem in our society. Contributing to this problem is the fact that bullying is not well understood. This makes it difficult to design successful interventions. The current study aims to create a complete picture of bullying in order to increase …
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Mock Jurors' Recommended Sentences for Perpetrators who have Traumatic Experiences
<p>Experiencing trauma can result in neurological and biological changes, precipitating long-term damage to the brain and body. A considerable proportion of incarcerated persons have reported that they have experienced some type of trauma (Stensrud, Gilbride, & Bruinekool, 2018). Using scenarios of …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
The present research investigated the moderating effect of target status on the relation between social dominance orientation and fairness in either a positively or negatively framed limited resource allocation decision. Participants were asked to read medical case files about either a high or low …
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Just world violations prompt beliefs in karmic retribution
How likely are people to think that someone who perpetrates a crime against another person will experience an adverse event in response? In other words, how much do people believe in karmic retribution? Across three studies, we examined this question in the present research. Participants were …
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Gender and Sexuality in Blame Attributions for Intimate Partner Violence
In this project I explore how gender and sexuality impact how respondents blame perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Victims of same sex intimate partner violence (SSIPV) have different experiences with IPV than do heterosexual victims, both in articulating their experiences …
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College Students' Perceptions Of An Uncomfortable Sexual Experience
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate college students' perception of an uncomfortable sexual experience and identify factors that may reinforce revictimization of rape victims. An additional purpose was to compare perceptions of rape victims to perceptions of those who have never been …
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An Examination of Death Salience: A Component in the Death Anxiety Model
… identified few consistent theoretical approaches in the assessment of death anxiety and death attitudes for patients diagnosed with a potentially life threatening illness, such as cancer. This illness experience forces patients to contemplate their mortality. The present study employed a portion …
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Fair or Unfair? Chinese Undergraduates’ Perceptions of College Classroom Assessments
… study aimed to extend the research on fairness in classroom assessment by examining undergraduates’ fairness perceptions of and their emotional and behavioral responses to college classroom settings in relation to personal justice beliefs and fairness dimensions at a private university in China. …
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Charitable Giving to Distant Others: An extended theory of planned behaviour model
Asking the question why consumers make the choices they do when it comes to charitable giving has interested a diverse group of research scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. While a broad body of literature on charitable giving exists, less research has focused on why donors give …
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Discriminatory Behaviours Towards Employees with Disabilities: An Inductive Empirical Legal Research Approach to Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Cases
… with disabilities. Most of these methods involve employer self-reports, with only a few studies examining the behaviour of employers. This study applied a unique, untapped data set—decisions from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario—that captures retrospective information on the behaviour …