Callan, MJ and Harvey, AJ and Dawtry, RJ and Sutton, RM (2013) 'Through the looking glass: Focusing on long-term goals increases immanent justice reasoning.' British Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (2). 377 - 385. ISSN 0144-6665
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Immanent justice reasoning involves causally attributing a negative event to someone's prior moral failings, even when such a causal connection is physically implausible. This study examined the degree to which immanent justice represents a form of motivated reasoning in the service of satisfying the need to believe in a just world. Drawing on a manipulation that has been shown to activate justice motivation, participants causally attributed a freak accident to a man's prior immoral (vs. moral) behaviour to a greater extent when they first focused on their long-term (vs. short-term) goals. These findings highlight the important function believing in a just world plays in self-regulatory processes by implicating the self in immanent justice reasoning about fluke events in the lives of others. © 2013 The British Psychological Society.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2013 12:37 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2019 18:15 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7202 |
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