General Belief in a Just World Is Positively Associated with Dishonest Behavior

Wenzel, Kristin; Schindler, Simon; Reinhard, Marc‐André

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01770

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“…GBJW is a better predictor of harsh social attitudes (see Hafer & Sutton, 2016, for a review) and associated with a lower degree of life satisfaction. Furthermore, Wenzel, Schindler, and Reinhard (2017) identified a positive connection between dishonest behavior and GBJW. Consequently, we focused here on PBJW as the main predictor, but also controlled for effects of GBJW as an additional predictor.…”

Section: Belief In a Just Worldmentioning

confidence: 96%

Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

2020

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A cross-national study with university students from Germany (n = 1135) and Turkey (n = 634) tested whether personal belief in a just world (PBJW) predicts students’ life satisfaction and academic cheating. Based on the just-world theory and empirical findings in the school context, we expected university students with a stronger personal BJW to be more satisfied with their lives and cheat less than those with a weaker BJW. Further, we investigated the mediating role of justice experiences with lecturers and fellow students in these relations. Differences in PBJW directly and indirectly predicted undergraduates’ life satisfaction. Students’ justice experiences with peers mediated the relationship between PBJW and life satisfaction. Differences in PBJW indirectly predicted undergraduates’ academic cheating. Students’ justice experiences with lecturers mediated the relationship between PBJW and academic cheating. The results did not differ between German and Turkish students and persisted when we controlled for gender, start of studies, socially desirable responding, general BJW, and self-efficacy. We discussed the importance of personal BJW’s adaptive functions and their relevance for international university research and practice.

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Section: Belief In a Just Worldmentioning

confidence: 96%

Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

2020

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“…Although a just world is conceptually related to social and environmental order (Lerner & Miller, 1978), the Orderliness facet refers more to an individual's preference for physical order and cleanliness, which have no reported relationship with PBJW. The Dutifulness facet entails a straightforward perception of a person as dependable and truthful, but just-world beliefs are related to a person's interpretation of morality and not necessarily to a specific pattern of engagement in moral behaviours: such beliefs were found to be associated with both moral and immoral behaviours, for example, both helping behaviour and victim blaming (Str€ omwall, Alfredsson, & Landstr€ om, 2013;Zuckerman, 1975), and unrelated to dishonesty (Wenzel, Schindler, & Reinhard, 2017). Cautiousness refers to impulsivity, but not to whether an outcome is just.…”

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Personal Belief in a Just World and Conscientiousness: A meta‐analysis, facet‐level examination, and mediation model

Nudelman

Otto

2019

British J of Psychology

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Extensive research efforts have been devoted to understanding the nature of Conscientiousness, the only Big Five personality trait that has been robustly linked to professional achievement and longevity. We proposed that Conscientiousness is associated with Personal Belief in a Just World (PBJW), that is, the extent to which an individual believes that her or his efforts will be rewarded. To investigate this proposition, we undertook a meta‐analysis synthesizing past findings regarding the relationship between PBJW and Conscientiousness; we confirmed a positive relationship between the two constructs (r = .16) based on 17 samples and 5,810 individuals. We further proposed a theoretical framework linking PBJW to specific facets of Conscientiousness. A survey of a representative sample of the US population (n = 311) confirmed that PBJW is positively correlated with the specific facets of Self‐efficacy, Achievement‐striving, and Self‐discipline. Internal Locus of Control mediated these associations, elucidating the underlying processes linking PBJW and Conscientiousness.

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“…Victim blaming in this capacity can occur as a function of believing that the world is a fair place where people deserve what they get, and get what they deserve (Lerner & Simmons, 1966), and underpins what are commonly referred to as 'rape myths'; a set of beliefs about how victims of rape might have contributed to their own victimisation (Vonderhaar & Carmody, 2015). As such, it makes sense to assess whether one's disposition to believe in a just world (Wenzel et al, 2017) would impact deepfake-related judgements, especially in the context where some victims, for example celebrities, are thought to contribute to being victims of abuse across online settings (Muntean & Petersen, 2009).…”

Section: Belief In Just Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography

Fido¹,

J²,

Ca³

2020

Preprint

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With the advent of means to generate and disseminate fake, sexualised images of others for the purposes of financial gain, harassment, or sexual gratification, there is a need to assess and understand the public’s awareness and judgements of said behaviour. In two independently-sampled studies, we used moderation (Study 1) and linear mixed effects (Study 2) analyses to investigate whether judgements of deepfaking differed as a function of victim status (celebrity, non-celebrity), victim and participant demographics, and image use (sharing, own sexual gratification), whilst controlling for the potential covariates of psychopathy and beliefs about a just world. We consistently observed more lenient judgements of deepfake generation and dissemination for victims who were celebrities and male, and when images were created for self-sexual gratification rather than being shared. Moreover, lenient judgements, as well as proclivity to act were predicted by greater levels of psychopathy. We discuss our findings in the context of needing to qualitatively understand the general public’s rationale for said disparity in judgements, as well as identifying and combating barriers to disclose victimisation. Open data and a preprint of this paper are available at https://osf.io/fp85q/?view_only=24ed2820782f4c2f9c19352f97d58611.

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General Belief in a Just World Is Positively Associated with Dishonest Behavior

Cited by 33 publications

References 36 publications

Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

Personal Belief in a Just World and Conscientiousness: A meta‐analysis, facet‐level examination, and mediation model

Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography

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