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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"just world"”.
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Just world violations prompt beliefs in karmic retribution
… getting cancer). Dispositional belief in a just world did not consistently moderate the effect of crime severity on the likelihood of negative events. These findings provide novel evidence for the question of how people psychologically manage violations to the belief that the world is fair …
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Relating Color Blind Racial Attitudes, Social Dominance Orientation and Just World Beliefs
… research study explored the relationship between Just World Beliefs, Social Dominance Orientation, and Color-blind Racial Attitudes. Beliefs in Just World (BJW) asserts that people believe in a world where, in general, good things happen to those that are good and bad things happen to those that …
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Just World Beliefs, Identity Development, and Social Justice Advocacy of Counselor Trainees
… 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 correlation between identity …
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The Impact Of Positive Thinking, Optimism, Empathy, And Just World Beliefs On Social Perceptions Of Cancer
… The role of individual differences in just world beliefs, dispositional optimism, and empathy was also explored. Undergraduate college students (N = 233) read a hypothetical blog of a cancer patient, who described one of three scenarios - a PT exposure/try PT scenario (in which the …
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Incarcerated writers search for narrative connections beyond prison walls in hope of writing a more humane and just world
… comprises an effective way to politically justify offering educational programs to violent offenders, recidivism rates constitute a racially biased metric that does not capture the more heuristic aspects of carceral education and the far community-reach of college-in-prison programs. This …
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… Perceptions of police legitimacy and Belief in a Just World were also measured to assess whether prior attitudes and beliefs influence how acceptable police use of force is viewed. Only civilian resistance during the encounter and increased perceptions of police legitimacy were found to be …
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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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Examining Factors that Influence Reactions to Human Trafficking
… 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 individuals high on the constructs of belief in a just world and human trafficking myth acceptance attribute …
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The victim role: an exploration into descriptions and evaluations of victims
… that individual differences in moral values, just world beliefs, and political values may influence reactions to victims. An individual’s moral values and political values may determine how they conceptualize the victim role. Individuals with strong just world beliefs are more likely to seek …
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Digging Below the Demographic Level: Examining the Effects of Internalized Racial and Social Attitudes on White Physicians-In-Training Self-Reported Cross Cultural Competency
… color-blind racial attitudes, and general just world beliefs were examined as possible predictors of patient centered attitudes toward patients of color and skillfulness in providing cross cultural care. Multivariate multiple regression analyses found that internal motivation to respond …
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Physiological measures differentiate distinct domains of immanent justice reasoning
<p>Just-world theory research investigates how an individual's world-view influences his/her behavior when confronted with injustice. The purpose of the present study was to examine the utility of multiple continual physiological measurements as predictors of just-world motivated behavior such as …
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Predictors of Bullying in an Adolescent School Sample
… Regression analysis also showed belief in a just world, self-esteem, age, and negative coping created a significant model predicting traditional bullying. The findings particularly highlight belief in a just world as a variable that should be further explored. The findings are discussed in …
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Increased rape victims scale attitudes after relational rejection: The roles of entitlement and shame
… victim blaming beliefs would correlate with both just world beliefs and traditional masculinity. Participants were administered a number of additional measures that were used in exploratory analyses, including participants’ level of aggression, impulsiveness, sexism, narcissism, state shame, …
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Mock Jurors' Recommended Sentences for Perpetrators who have Traumatic Experiences
… The mock jurors’ trait empathy, Belief in a Just World, and their own traumatic experiences were assessed to determine whether these characteristics could account for the variation in recommended sentences. No significant differences were found between the recommended sentences of …
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Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop
… are both practices engaged in building a better world. Urban scholars like Gautam Bhan, Shannon Mattern, and David Harvey propose the city as a space for envisioning the kind of community we want to be—a space for working towards our collective future. By engaging in fictional storytelling, I …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
… that claim to challenge dominant models of world-building and present alternative forms of living through the use of decolonial methodologies and political ecology approaches. In particular, I examine ‘alter-institutional practice’ in order to comprehend the role art plays in the search for …
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
… all are. This means that we must pursue a more just world for all. Interestingly enough, as we look at the evidences of the ways in which cultural violence have been used historically and today as a means to withhold power from the people, we find that participating in the arts grants a great …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
… interaction when controlling for belief in a just world, such that low SDO individuals were less fair and more favourable to low status targets than high status targets, whereas high SDO individuals were equally fair to all targets, regardless of status. These results suggest that, on average, …
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Influences on Juror's Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
… that women provided more support for the "Just World Hypothesis" then did men. Women tended to blame the perpetrator when the victim was sober, but not when the victim was intoxicated. When there was no information about either the victim's or the perpetrator's intoxication status women …
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