Why and when justice sensitivity leads to pro- and antisocial behavior

Gollwitzer, Mario; Rothmund, Tobias; Pfeiffer, Andreas; Ensenbach, Conrad

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.07.003

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“…Personal -Justice Sensitivity This is characterized by a person's reactions to injustice and unfairness (Dalbert 2001;Gollwitzer et al 2009;Smith and Terry 2003). Individuals who have a strong sense of justice have been found to hold stronger opinions in favor of social equality (Fetchenhaar and Huang 2003).…”

Section: Personal Characteristics Of Counselorsmentioning

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The School Counselor in Israel: An Agent of Social Justice?

Erhard

Sinai

2012

Int J Adv Counselling

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In recent years, leaders in the school counseling profession worldwide have been calling on their colleagues to re-examine their role as "agents of social justice" in schools, with a view to promoting equal educational opportunities for all students. This research examines counselors' perceptions of the role, role behaviors, personal justice sensitivity, the school's justice sensitivity and the interrelations among these variables. Two hundred and six Israeli school counselors responded to a questionnaire. Findings show that the majority of counselors perceived their role as promoting social justice, and indeed engaged in activities meant to increase disadvantaged students' chances of success. The variable of role perception was found to mediate between personal sensitivity to justice (justice sensitivity) and counselors' actual behaviors. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for the professional socialization of counselors as agents of social justice.

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Section: Personal Characteristics Of Counselorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The School Counselor in Israel: An Agent of Social Justice?

Erhard

Sinai

2012

Int J Adv Counselling

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“…For example, suspicious and anxious individuals are more sensitive to being exploited and cheated on (Schmitt, Gollwitzer, Maes, & Arbach, 2005). They tend to expect unfair treatment, and this expectation promotes selfish and even antisocial behavior directed at getting even or preventing exploitation (Gollwitzer, Schmitt, Schalke, Maes, & Baer, 2005;Gollwitzer, Rothmund, Pfeiffer, & Ensenbach, 2009). By contrast, agreeable individuals tend to perceive more procedural justice and to ascribe more importance to it than less agreeable individuals do (Van Hiel, De Cremer, & Stouten, 2008).…”

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The Justice Sensitivity Inventory: Factorial Validity, Location in the Personality Facet Space, Demographic Pattern, and Normative Data

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This article investigates the psychometric properties of a self-report inventory for measuring individual differences in four components of justice sensitivity (JS): victim sensitivity, observer sensitivity, beneficiary sensitivity, and perpetrator sensitivity. A representative sample (N = 2510) was employed to (a) estimate the reliability of a newly developed perpetrator sensitivity scale, (b) test the factorial validity of this scale together with three previously developed scales (victim, observer, and beneficiary sensitivity), (c) estimate correlations between JS and demographic variables (gender, age, education, employment status, marital status, and residency in East versus West Germany), and (d) provide normative data for the computation of standard scores. A demographically heterogeneous convenience sample (N = 327) was used to locate the JS dimensions in the personality space of narrow facet factors. Results from confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the factorial validity of the JS scales. Regression analyses with JS scales as criteria and personality facet scales as predictors suggested that JS cannot be reduced to combinations of personality facets. Demographic effects were small, explaining a maximum of 1.4% of JS variance. Women and East Germans were found to be more justice sensitive than men and West Germans, respectively. Victim sensitivity decreased with age; perpetrator sensitivity decreased with education. Taken together, our results corroborate the validity of the JS Inventory and contribute to a better psychological understanding of JS.

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“…According to the Sensitivity to Mean Intentions (SeMI) model (Gollwitzer and Rothmund, 2009), victim-sensitive individuals are specifically sensitive to contextual cues that are associated with meanness, recklessness, and untrustworthiness. In social dilemma situations—that are typically characterized by some degree of uncertainty concerning one’s partners’ intentions—victim-sensitive individuals expect to be exploited and thus tend to defect (Gollwitzer et al, 2009). Hence, some of the uncooperative and anti-social behaviors displayed by people high in victim sensitivity can be understood as a means to protect themselves from (assumed) victimization.…”

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“…Stated differently, whenever a specific social situation entails cues suggesting that one’s interaction partner is not trustworthy, then trust becomes riskier and, thus, less likely. It is therefore highly functional (in particular for people aversive to exploitation) to attend to cues that are informative about another person’s untrustworthiness, and research shows that people actually do use these cues before they make a trustworthiness decision (e.g., Zebrowitz and Montepare, 2008; Gollwitzer et al, 2009; Todorov et al, 2009). Such cues include current behavioral cues such as the things a person says, the way he or she looks, or their facial expression, as well as information about a person’s past behavior, reputation, or background.…”

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Trustworthy Tricksters: Violating a Negative Social Expectation Affects Source Memory and Person Perception When Fear of Exploitation Is High

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People who are high in victim-sensitivity—a personality trait characterized by a strong fear of being exploited by others—are more likely to attend to social cues associated with untrustworthiness rather than to cues associated with trustworthiness compared with people who are low in victim-sensitivity. But how do these people react when an initial expectation regarding a target’s trustworthiness turns out to be false? Results from two studies show that victim-sensitive compared with victim-insensitive individuals show enhanced source memory and greater change in person perception for negatively labeled targets that violated rather than confirmed negative expectations (the “trustworthy trickster”). These findings are in line with recent theorizing on schema inconsistency and expectancy violation effects in social cognition and with research on the different facets of justice sensitivity in personality psychology.

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Why and when justice sensitivity leads to pro- and antisocial behavior

Cited by 116 publications

References 33 publications

The School Counselor in Israel: An Agent of Social Justice?

The School Counselor in Israel: An Agent of Social Justice?

The Justice Sensitivity Inventory: Factorial Validity, Location in the Personality Facet Space, Demographic Pattern, and Normative Data

Trustworthy Tricksters: Violating a Negative Social Expectation Affects Source Memory and Person Perception When Fear of Exploitation Is High

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