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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient
Just-World Belief
Believing that people generally receive outcomes they deserve can support a sense of order, but it can also turn unexplained harm or disadvantage into blame.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Experimental Research on Just-World Theory: Problems, Developments, and Future Challenges
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Evidence supports justice-motive processes under defined conditions, but effects depend on threat, available responses, measurement and whether the victim’s fate can be restored.
- Where it may not transfer
- A heterogeneous narrative review does not yield one effect size. Construct definitions and paradigms vary, and observed responses can have alternative explanations.
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