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Belief in a Just World
A Fundamental Delusion
Inbunden, 1980
2657 kr
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The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only a sense …
Justice Motive in Social Behavior
Adapting to Times of Scarcity and Change
Av Melvin J. Lerner, Sally C. Lerner
Inbunden, 1981
2127 kr
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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 …
Justice
Views from the Social Sciences
Inbunden, 1986
1067 kr
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Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a "human hunger or thirst" (Pascal, Pensees, cited in Hirschman, 1982, p. 91), "more powerful than any …
Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
Inbunden, 1988
2122 kr
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We dedicate this book to John Thibaut. He was mentor and personal friend to one of us, and his work had a profound intellectual influence on both of us. We were both strongly influenced by Thibaut's insightful articulation of the importance to psychology of the concept of pro cedural justice and …
New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law, and Social Control
Inbunden, 1990
1064 kr
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The publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Jus tice Studies. When Dr. John M. Johnson was awarded the Arizona State University Graduate College's Distinguished Research Award for 1986- 1987, the School …
Social Justice in Human Relations
Volume 1: Societal and Psychological Origins of Justice
Av Riël Vermunt, Herman Steensma
Inbunden, 1991
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Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2
Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice
Av Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt
Inbunden, 1991
1067 kr
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Justice plays an important role in our culture. The topic of justice has attracted the attention of scholars all over the world. Beginning in 1985, a continuing series of international conferences on social justice in The Netherlands at which scientists present and discuss started papers, exchange …
Legacy of Injustice
Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment
Inbunden, 1993
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At the age of 6, I discovered a jar of brightly colored shells under my grandmother's kitchen sink. When I inquired where they had come from, she did not answer. Instead, she told me in broken English, "Ask your mother. " My mother's response to the same question was, "Oh, I made them in camp. " …
Entitlement and the Affectional Bond
Justice in Close Relationships
Av Melvin J. Lerner, Gerold Mikula
Inbunden, 1994
1067 kr
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If the truth were told, this volume and its direct antecedents must rank among the most ambitious, if not simply pretentious, endeavors imag inable, at least in the social sciences. The titles of the volume and the chapters, promising to integrate the experiences of the sense of justice and the …
Living and Dying Well
Inbunden, 1996
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Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in …
Current Societal Concerns about Justice
Av Leo Montada, Melvin J. Lerner
Inbunden, 1996
1067 kr
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What role does justice play in the formation of public opinion and the scholarly debates about social problems? Does the perception of injustice force problems to appear on the political agenda? Does the perception of an injustice give momentum to social change? Or are violations of self-interest …
Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World
Av Leo Montada, Melvin J. Lerner
Inbunden, 1998
1688 kr
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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 …
Values, Achievement, and Justice
Studies in the Psychology of Deservingness
Inbunden, 1999
1597 kr
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This work relates judgements of "deservingness" or "undeservingness" to perceived responsibility, values, linking relations, and ingroup/outgroup relations. It presents a social-cognitive process model concerned with how people react to offences and to the perpetrators of offences. Studies …
Justice Motive as a Personal Resource
Dealing with Challenges and Critical Life Events
Inbunden, 2001
1067 kr
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Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists, the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life, for those struggling with their daily tasks as well as for those …
Regulating Religion
Case Studies from Around the Globe
Inbunden, 2003
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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, …
Regulating Religion
Case Studies from Around the Globe
Häftad, 2003
1752 kr
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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, …
Theory, Justice, and Social Change
Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications
Av Christopher R. Williams, Bruce A. Arrigo
Inbunden, 2004
1098 kr
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Throughout history, social and intellectual crises have given rise to compelling suggestions for reform steeped in various progressive sensibilities. For example, within the discipline of criminology -- particularly during the 1980’s and 1990’s -- a number of unconventional theoretical perspectives …
Theory, Justice, and Social Change
Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications
Av Christopher R. Williams, Bruce A. Arrigo
Häftad, 2005
1098 kr
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Throughout history, social and intellectual crises have given rise to compelling suggestions for reform steeped in various progressive sensibilities. For example, within the discipline of criminology -- particularly during the 1980’s and 1990’s -- a number of unconventional theoretical perspectives …
Solidarity and Prosocial Behavior
An Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
Av Detlev Fetchenhauer, Andreas Flache m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1067 kr
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This book is the product of an intensive cooperation between psych- ogists and sociologists who study solidarity and prosocial behavior, and its fruits are briefly summarized in Chapter 1. The topics of so- darity and prosocial behavior are at the core of both disciplines and thus one might expect …
Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World
Av Leo Montada, Melvin J. Lerner
Häftad, 2010
1688 kr
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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 …
Justice Motive as a Personal Resource
Dealing with Challenges and Critical Life Events
Häftad, 2010
1130 kr
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Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists, the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life, for those struggling with their daily tasks as well as for those …
Solidarity and Prosocial Behavior
An Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
Av Detlev Fetchenhauer, Andreas Flache m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1067 kr
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This book is the product of an intensive cooperation between psych- ogists and sociologists who study solidarity and prosocial behavior, and its fruits are briefly summarized in Chapter 1. The topics of so- darity and prosocial behavior are at the core of both disciplines and thus one might expect …
School Desegregation Research
New Directions in Situational Analysis
Av Jeffrey Prager, Douglas Longshore m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
536 kr
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The desegregation situation is the keynote theme of the following chapters. I Each of them touches on a different dimension of the situation: the historical, the temporal, the spatial. But the reader, perusing the essays with the situation in mind, should remember that the desegregation situation …
Sense of Injustice
Social Psychological Perspectives
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind" (S. …
Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology
Häftad, 2013
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Significant developments within the past few years have made possible the publication of this rather large volume focusing on specific emotions of human experience, such as interest, joy, anger, distress, fear, shame, shyness, and guilt. The relevant events include new evidence on the relationship …
Handbook of Social Resource Theory
Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications
Inbunden, 2012
1639 kr
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Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to individuals’ physical and mental health and …
Children’s Competence to Consent
Av Gary B. Melton, Gerald P. Koocher m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
537 kr
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Justice in Social Relations
Av Hans Werner Bierhoff, Ronald L. Cohen m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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From July 16 through July 21, 1984 a group of American and West German scholars met in Marburg, West Germany to discuss their com mon work on the topic of justice in social relations. For over 30 hours they presented papers, raised questions about each other's work, and in so doing plotted a …
Justice and the Critique of Pure Psychology
Häftad, 2012
537 kr
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Empiricist philosophy of science of the kind that promised truth through method and a unification of science now lies in disarray. Arguments over the indeterminancy of theoretical language, the inadequacy of induction, the empirical incommensurability of competing theories, the possibility or im …
Values, Achievement, and Justice
Studies in the Psychology of Deservingness
Häftad, 2013
1593 kr
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When we say that a person deserves a positive or negative outcome, we are making a judgment that is influenced by a number ofvariables. We would certainly take into account whether the person was resp- siblefortheoutcomeorwhethertheoutcomecouldbeattributedtoother sources. We would also consider …
