Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

MJ Lerner (1980) proposed that people need to believe in a just world; thus, evidence that
the world is not just is threatening, and people have a number of strategies for reducing such …

En el presente artículo se hace una revisión teórica sobre el concepto de victimización
secundaria. Esta revisión hace parte de la línea de Investigación en procesos de …

This research studies people's reactions to the suffering of victims, examining the hypothesis
of the belief in a just world (BJW)(Lerner, 1980) according to which the awareness of …

Some people have postulated that the perception of Jews' ongoing suffering from past
atrocities can result in an increase in anti-Semitism. This postulated secondary anti …

According to justice motive theory, people have a need to believe that the world is a just
place where individuals get what they deserve. Thus, people are motivated to defend belief …

An examination of the powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral
responsibility firmly in place. The philosophical commitment to moral responsibility seems …

公正世界信念即相信所处的世界是公正的, 人们得其所应得, 所得即应得. 然而在现实生活中这一
信念常常受到各种不公正事件的威胁, 公正世界信念可以帮助人们应对威胁, 重建公正 …

Framed by the Belief in a Just World theory (BJW; Lerner, MJ (1980). Belief in a just world: A
fundamental delusion. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation), this article presents two …

This research examines the role of colleagues' helping behavior in workplace bullying.
Although colleagues are often able to intervene to support the victim or stop the bullying …