Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)

The preparation of this volume began with a conference held at Trier University, approximately thirty years after the publication of the first Belief in a Just World (BJW) manuscript. The location of the conference was especially appropriate given the continued interest that the Trier faculty and students had for BJW research and theory. As several chapters in this volume document, their research together with the other contributors to this volume have added to the current sophistication and status of the BJW construct. In the 1960s and 1970s Melvin Lerner, together with his students and colleagues, developed his justice motive theory. The theory of Belief in a Just World (BJW) was part of that effort. BJW theory, meanwhile in its thirties, has become very influential in social and behavioral sciences. As with every widely applied concept and theory there is a natural develop mental history that involves transformations, differentiation of facets, and efforts to identify further theoretical relationships. And, of course, that growth process will not end unless the theory ceases to develop. In this volume this growth is reconstructed along Furnham's stage model for the development of scientific concepts. The main part of the book is devoted to current trends in theory and research."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Social Justice
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1998
Editors:	Leo Montada • Melvin J. Lerner
Dimensions:	279 x 210 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-3306-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
LSN:	1-4419-3306-9
Barcode:	9781441933065

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