Psychological distance and abstraction both represent key variables of considerable interest
to researchers across cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Moreover, largely …

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 …

Why do people care about justice? This chapter addresses the question from the point of
view of a body of theory and research that has examined the motivational commitment …

Since 2017, the year in which the# MeToo movement burst into the spotlight, many women
voiced their experiences with sexual predation. Although many people support the …

Immanent justice reasoning involves causally attributing a deserved outcome to someone's
prior moral deeds or character, even when such a causal connection is physically …

Research during the 1960s found that observers could be moved enough by an innocent
victim's suffering to derogate their character. However, recent research has produced …

Consumers have an intuitive belief in “karma” which dictates that bad (good) actions lead to
bad (good) outcomes. Consequently, consumers perceive a causal connection between …

Researchers have questioned whether self-report questionnaires adequately assess post-
traumatic growth as it was theorized (positive personality change after trauma), versus …

From blaming to helping innocent victims, just-world research has revealed that observers
react to victimization in a variety of ways. Recent research suggests that such responses to …

Het proefschrift behandelt de reacties van leken en juridische professionals (strafrechters en
officieren van justitie) op emotionele slachtoffers van ernstige misdrijven. Hoewel men zou …