Callan, Mitchell J and Harvey, Annelie J and Dawtry, Rael J and Sutton, Robbie M (2013) Through the looking glass: Focusing on long‐term goals increases immanent justice reasoning. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (2). pp. 377-385. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12022
Callan, Mitchell J and Harvey, Annelie J and Dawtry, Rael J and Sutton, Robbie M (2013) Through the looking glass: Focusing on long‐term goals increases immanent justice reasoning. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (2). pp. 377-385. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12022
Callan, Mitchell J and Harvey, Annelie J and Dawtry, Rael J and Sutton, Robbie M (2013) Through the looking glass: Focusing on long‐term goals increases immanent justice reasoning. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (2). pp. 377-385. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12022
Abstract
<jats:p>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<jats:bold>,</jats:bold> 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.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans; Analysis of Variance; Attitude; Goals; Machiavellianism; Morals; Thinking; Social Justice; Adult; Female; Male |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2013 12:37 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:43 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7202 |