Responses to victimizations and belief in a just world /

This thoroughly detailed text examines how an individual's belief in a just world determines his or her sense of, and responses to, victimization. It explores the direct and indirect relationships between justice, fate, risk, self-determinism, and self-interest, among other issues. The volume a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Montada, Leo, Lerner, Melvin J., 1929-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1998]
Series:Critical issues in social justice.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This thoroughly detailed text examines how an individual's belief in a just world determines his or her sense of, and responses to, victimization. It explores the direct and indirect relationships between justice, fate, risk, self-determinism, and self-interest, among other issues. The volume also includes methods of measuring beliefs in a just world and considers components of delusion, knowledge, and justification in the equation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781475764185
1475764189
ISSN:1572-1906