Belief in a Just World

By C. Dalbert. 2015

1,046 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Rape myth acceptance, victim blame attribution and Just World Beliefs: A rapid evidence assessment. (2017, neutral): “Dalbert (2009) illustrates that the desire to believe in a Just World (Lerner & Simmons, 1966) influences individuals’ social perceptions and, unfortunately, can result in blaming complainants for the sexual offence and accepting that the offence happened for reasons favouring the perpetrator. Previ”
• Why We Hate (2018, neutral): “In another line of research, hate crimes have been associated with a threatened belief in a just world (Lerner, 1980).”
• Rape victim and perpetrator blame and the Just World hypothesis: The influence of victim gender and age (2013, neutral): “The theoretical foundation of this study is the Just World Theory (Lerner, 1980; see Dalbert, 2009, for a recent review of the concept).”
• A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers (2015, neutral): “If people believe the world is just (Lerner, 1980), they do not perceive a systematic discrimination of groups and in turn do not engage in collective action (e.g., Becker & Wright, 2011; Hafer & Olson, 1989; Jost et al., 2012).”
• When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt (2020, neutral): “Oddly enough then, people sometimes prefer thinking that “if I was treated bad, I must deserve it” than to accept the unpredictability of their life circumstances (Lerner, 1980).”
• Inclusive and exclusive belonging – the impact on individual and community well-being (2013, neutral): “A common critique of modern societies is that the belief that ‘everyone can make it’ puts the responsibility for advancement on individual effort alone and ignores the need to address inequality of birth and opportunity (Lerner, 1980, cited in Roffey, 2012a).”
• What do we know about rape myths and juror decision making? (2020, neutral): “Particularly notable here is the relationship between rape myth scales and scores on scales measuring the extent to which people hold what have been termed ‘just world beliefs’ (Lerner, 1980), as this might explain why some people—women in particular—believe rape myths.”
• A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications (2018, neutral): “Whereas Lerner (1980) argued that genuine concerns for justice (inspired by the ‘justice motive’) should be positively associated with the belief in a just Quarter century of system justification 37 38 John T. Jost world and victim-blaming tendencies, it follows from system justification theory…”