Victim’s innocence, social categorization, and the threat to the belief in a just world

Correia, Isabel; Vala, Jorge; Aguiar, Patrícia

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2005.12.010

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“…Participants first read an ostensibly real news report. The story described how a young boy sustained an electric shock when he touched a live wire while playing with friends around a construction site (Correia et al, 2007). Participants learned that the boy needed to have both his arms amputated because of the incident.…”

Section: Studies 1 To 3: Victim Innocence Methods Studymentioning

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“…We then exposed participants to standard just-world threat manipulations that varied the innocence of the victim (e.g., Callan, Shead, & Olson, 2009;Correia, Vala, & Aguiar, 2007;Studies 1-3) or the extent to which the victim suffered (e.g., Anderson et al, 2010;Callan, Ellard, & Nicol, 2006; Studies 4-6) before measuring participants' reactions to the events. van den Bos and Maas (2009) only measured the extent to which participants blamed the victim, but as we reviewed above, this is not the only way people can respond to perceived injustice.…”

Section: How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers' Reactiomentioning

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How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers’ Reactions to Victimization?

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Section: Studies 1 To 3: Victim Innocence Methods Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers' Reactiomentioning

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How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers’ Reactions to Victimization?

2014

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“…According to Miller (1978, p. 1031), ''as events become closer to [people's] world (…), the concern over injustices increases greatly as does the need to explain or make sense of the event.'' In earlier studies, social proximity has been manipulated to induce a high and low BJW threat successfully (e.g., Bal & Van den Bos, 2010, Correia et al, 2007.…”

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Putting the “I” and “Us” in Justice: Derogatory and Benevolent Reactions Toward Innocent Victims in Self-Focused and Other-Focused Individuals

Bal

Bos

2015

Soc Just Res

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Reactions toward innocent victims can range from harsh derogatory reactions to great effort to alleviate the victims' ill fates. Using insights from research on justworld theory and perspective taking, the current paper investigates both negative and positive reactions toward innocent victims. Specifically, we propose that self-focused versus other-focused motives can evoke derogatory versus more benevolent reactions, respectively, toward innocent victims. By manipulating self-focus versus other-focus, we indeed show in two studies that a self-focus enhanced indirect victim blaming and derogation and decreased helping of innocent victims. Furthermore, when participants were focused on another person these effects attenuated. Taken together, these findings extend previous studies on just-world theory and show that both blaming and helping can be viable strategies to deal with unjust situations.

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“…Castro and Lima 2001;Lima 2004), safety (Silva, Baptista and Lima 2004) and social justice (e.g. Correia, Vala and Aguiar 2007).…”

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Dynamics and dilemmas in social psychology: Social relations, identities and cognition

Vala

2012

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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This paper aims to provide a systematised overview of the paradigmatic orientations in social psychology in Portugal by identifying the most cited publications. Results show that the eight most cited thematic are: (1) deviance and reactions to deviance, (2) methodology, (3) prejudice and discrimination, (4) gender studies, (5) risk, environment and safety, (6) information processing, social judgment, familiarity and mood, (7) social representations and (8) social justice and belief in a just world. These eight most salient thematics can be sorted into three current paradigmatic orientations in contemporary social psychology: (a) social cognition; (b) the study of collective beliefs, ideologies and social representations; and (c) the study of identity and its impact on intra- and intergroup processes. The paper finishes with a reflection on the future developments of the discipline and the dilemmas that social psychology in Portugal could face.

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Victim’s innocence, social categorization, and the threat to the belief in a just world

Cited by 116 publications

References 30 publications

How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers’ Reactions to Victimization?

How Much Does Effortful Thinking Underlie Observers’ Reactions to Victimization?

Putting the “I” and “Us” in Justice: Derogatory and Benevolent Reactions Toward Innocent Victims in Self-Focused and Other-Focused Individuals

Dynamics and dilemmas in social psychology: Social relations, identities and cognition

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