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Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research
Clara Sabbagh • Manfred Schmitt Editors
Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research
ISBN 978-1-4939-3215-3 ISBN 978-1-4939-3216-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-3216-0
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Editors Clara Sabbagh Department of Leadership
and Policy in Education University of Haifa Haifa , Israel
Manfred Schmitt Department of Psychology University of Koblenz-Landau Landau , Germany
This handbook is dedicated to the founders of the International Society for Justice Research:
Ronald L. Cohen (USA)
Karen S. Cook (USA)
Ronald C. Dillehay (USA)
Russell Hardin (USA)
Melvin J. Lerner (Canada)
Gerold Mikula (Austria)
Leo Montada (Germany, founding president)
Tom R. Tyler (USA)
Riël Vermunt (The Netherlands).
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Contents
1 Past, Present, and Future of Social Justice Theory and Research ................................................................................ 1 Clara Sabbagh and Manfred Schmitt
Part I Disciplinary Approaches
2 Philosophy of Justice: Extending Liberal Justice in Space and Time ........................................................................ 15 Lukas H. Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha
3 Sociology of Justice ...................................................................... 37 Stefan Liebig and Carsten Sauer
4 Psychology of Justice ................................................................... 61 Mario Gollwitzer and Jan-Willem van Prooijen
5 The Economics of Justice ............................................................ 83 James Konow and Lars Schwettmann
Part II The Justice Motive
6 Justice and Self-Interest .............................................................. 109 Leo Montada and Jürgen Maes
7 The Justice Motive: History, Theory, and Research ................. 127 John H. Ellard, Annelie Harvey, and Mitchell J. Callan
8 Belief in a Just World ................................................................... 145 Carolyn L. Hafer and Robbie Sutton
9 Justice Sensitivity ......................................................................... 161 Anna Baumert and Manfred Schmitt
10 Social-Cognitive and Motivational Processes Underlying the Justice Motive .................................................... 181 Kees van den Bos and Michèlle Bal
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Part III Forms of Justice
11 Distributive Justice ....................................................................... 201 Guillermina Jasso, Kjell Y. Törnblom, and Clara Sabbagh
12 Procedural Justice ........................................................................ 219 Riël Vermunt and Herman Steensma
13 Retributive Justice ....................................................................... 237 Michael Wenzel and Tyler G. Okimoto
14 Restorative Justice ....................................................................... 257 Ronald L. Cohen
Part IV Spheres of Justice
15 The Psychology of Social Justice in Political Thought and Action ..................................................................... 275 Tobias Rothmund, Julia C. Becker, and John T. Jost
16 Social Justice and the Welfare State: Institutions, Outcomes, and Attitudes in Comparative Perspective ............. 293 Patrick Sachweh
17 Justice in the Work Setting ......................................................... 315 Marius van Dijke and David De Cremer
18 Justice in the Couple and the Family ......................................... 333 Dorothea Dette-Hagenmeyer and Barbara Reichle
19 Justice and Education .................................................................. 349 Nura Resh and Clara Sabbagh
20 Justice and Environmental Sustainability ................................. 369 Susan Clayton, Elisabeth Kals, and Irina Feygina
21 Inequity Responses in Nonhuman Animals ............................... 387 Catherine F. Talbot, Sara A. Price, and Sarah F. Brosnan
Part V Beyond Justice
22 Morality and Justice .................................................................... 407 Linda J. Skitka, Christopher W. Bauman, and Elizabeth Mullen
23 Social Dynamics of Legitimacy and Justice ............................... 425 Karen A. Hegtvedt, Cathryn Johnson, and Lesley Watson
24 Archives and Social Justice Research ........................................ 445 Susan Opotow and Kimberly Belmonte
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25 Justice and Culture ...................................................................... 459 Ronald Fischer
26 Between Relative Deprivation and Entitlement: An Historical Analysis of the Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States ..................................................... 477 Ella Ben Hagai and Faye J. Crosby
Index ...................................................................................................... 491
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Clara Sabbagh (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is associate profes-sor of sociology of education at the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, University of Haifa, Israel. At the heart of her work lies an ongo-ing inquiry into key aspects of conceptions of social justice that underlie the basic structure of society. She is an associate editor for the journal Social Justice Research and served as the president of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) (2010–2012). Currently (2014–2018), she is the president of the Social Psychology Research Committee (RC42) at the International Sociological Association. Sabbagh’s Erdős number is 4. [email protected]
Manfred Schmitt teaches personality and psychological assessment at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Prior to his current affi liation, he was a pro-fessor of developmental psychology (Saarbruecken), statistics (Magdeburg), and social psychology (Trier). His research interests include emotion (guilt, shame, anger, jealousy, anxiety, disgust), social justice, personality and infor-mation processing, nonlinear person x situation interaction, objective person-ality testing, the joint impact of implicit and explicit dispositions on behavior, and the simultaneous modeling of traits and states. Manfred Schmitt has served as an associate editor of Social Justice Research , Psychologische Rundschau , Diagnostica , the European Journal of Psychological Assessment , and the European Journal of Personality . [email protected]
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About the Authors
Michèlle Bal After obtaining a Ph.D. in Social Psychology on the subject of social justice, Michèlle Bal is currently an assistant professor criminology at Leiden University. She is interested in cultural world views, especially those related to justice, and their social consequences. Her research focused on positive and negative reactions toward innocent victims of injustice and the underlying social-psychological processes. In addition to the individual con-sequences, for instance, for victims, she is interested in the workings of these processes on a group level, for example, in system justifi cation, protest behavior, and extremism. [email protected]
Christopher W. Bauman is an assistant professor at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include justice, morality and ethics, corporate social responsibility, and diversity. [email protected]
Anna Baumert is an assistant professor for personality and assessment at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Her research focuses on social information processing and its role in shaping individual differences in moral emotions and justice-related behavior. She investigates social phenomena such as cooperation, altruistic punishment, moral courage, and confl ict resolu-tion. Currently, she receives funding for research projects on the development of justice sensitivity in young adulthood as well as on the development of political trust and political engagement. [email protected]
Julia C. Becker is a professor of social psychology at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Marburg in 2008. Her main research interests focus on ways to explain why disadvantaged group members tolerate societal systems that produce social and economic inequality and how legitimizing ideologies help to maintain unequal status relations. She is also interested in people’s motivation in activism for social change and in the consequences of collective action participation. [email protected]
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Kimberly Belmonte is a doctoral student in the Critical Social/Personality Psychology program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also a researcher at the Public Science Project, where she is primarily engaged in community-based participatory research. Her research focuses on the transformation of injustice through documentation and reimagining resis-tance and resilience. Her recent work examines disproportionate school dis-cipline and the marginalization of diverse sexual and gender expressions in public high schools. [email protected]
Sarah F. Brosnan is an associate professor of psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience at Georgia State University. She studies the mechanisms under-lying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in non-human primates from an evolutionary perspective. She looks at the decisions individuals make and how they make them, how their social or ecological environments affect their decisions and interactions, and under what circum-stances they can alter their behaviors depending on these conditions. She is particularly interested in the evolutionary origins of reactions to inequity, how they relate to human fairness, and what this tells us about the evolution of morality. [email protected]
Mitchell J. Callan is a reader in psychology at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Calgary. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario before joining the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex. [email protected]
Susan Clayton is a Whitmore-Williams professor of psychology at the College of Wooster. Her research focuses on understanding and promoting concern about environmental issues and on the ways in which a relationship with nature is promoted through social interactions. Her books include Conservation Psychology : Understanding and Promoting a Healthy Human - Nature Relationship (with Gene Myers, second edition in press), Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology (2012, edited), and Justice and Self - Interest : Two Fundamental Motives (with Mel Lerner, 2011). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and presi-dent-elect of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. [email protected]
Ronald L. Cohen is a social psychologist at Bennington College and a founding member of the International Society of Justice Research. He is a coauthor (along with Duane Alwin and Theodore Newcomb) of Political Attitudes Over the Life Span : The Bennington Women After 50 Years , editor of Justice : Views from the Social Sciences , editor (along with Gerald Greenberg) of Equity and Justice in Social Behavior , and editor (along with Hans-Werner Bierhoff and Gerald Greenberg) of Justice in Social Relations .
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He has been serving on the Bennington (VT) County Reparative Board for over 20 years. [email protected]
David De Cremer is currently the KPMG chair of management studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK). He was a professor of management at China Europe International Business School and a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School. He is the founder of the Erasmus Centre of Behavioural Business Ethics at Rotterdam School of Management, and in 2009–2010, he was named the most infl uen-tial economist in the Netherlands. He is the recipient of the British Psychology Society Award “Outstanding Ph.D. thesis in social psychology,” “Jos Jaspars Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to social psychology,” “Comenius European Young Psychologist Award,” and “International Society for Justice Research Early Career Contribution Award.” [email protected]
Faye J. Crosby is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a researcher specializing in social justice. Crosby is known for her work on Relative Deprivation, Affi rmative Action, and Diversity. Among her books are Affi rmative Action Is Dead ; Long Live Affi rmative Action and Juggling : The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families . [email protected]
Dorothea Dette-Hagenmeyer obtained her Diploma in Psychology at the University of Halle (Germany) in 2002 and Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) in 2005. She is a lecturer and postdoc in 2006–2012 and an assistant professor in 2012–2014. She is in Robert Bosch Company Stuttgart (Germany) since 2014. Her research includes career development and family development, parenting and socio-emotional development of chil-dren, injustice in marital relationships, distributions in same-sex relationships, and codevelopment and evaluation of prevention programs for parents. [email protected]
John H. Ellard is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Calgary, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Waterloo and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has since been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. [email protected]
Irina Feygina is a social psychologist specializing in development and implementation of federal policy in areas of energy effi ciency in building and fl eet sectors, clean technology adoption, environmental protection, sustain-ability, and climate change assessment and adaptation. She also conducts research on climate communication and approaches to foster adaptive responses to ecological commons dilemmas. She emphasizes incorporation
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of human needs and behavioral approaches into program design and evi-dence-based decision-making. Irina organizes interdisciplinary meetings on climate resilience and teaches courses at the intersection of psychology and environmental studies. She is a fellow at the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. [email protected]
Ronald Fischer , Ph.D. is a reader in psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Marie Curie-Cofund senior fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. His research focuses on the inter-play between justice processes and the larger cultural, economic, and eco-logical context. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters; he is among the top 10 most cited researchers in culture and psychology and currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology . [email protected] ; rfi [email protected]
Mario Gollwitzer is a professor of methodology and social psychology at the department of psychology at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Trier in 2004 with a dis-sertation on revenge. His research focuses on (a) social-psychological research on retributive justice; (b) individual differences in “justice sensitiv-ity” and their relation to moral reasoning and moral behavior; (c) effects of violent video games on cognition, emotion, and behavior; and (d) public understanding of and engagement with (social) scientifi c research programs and fi ndings. [email protected]
Carolyn L. Hafer is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University, Canada. She studies the justice motive, belief in a just world, deservingness, and human rights. Carolyn has been the president of the International Society for Justice Research and an associate editor of the jour-nal Social Justice Research . She is currently a book series editor of Current Perspectives on Justice and Morality . [email protected]
Ella Ben Hagai studied psychology at UC Berkeley and anthropology and the London School of Economics. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She researches narratives of person-hood and how these shape political decision-making. She has published in the journal Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy and Peace and Confl ict . [email protected]
Annelie Harvey is a psychology lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Essex in 2014, which considered how people make sense of victimization and misfortune from a just-world theory perspective. [email protected]
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Karen A. Hegtvedt is a professor of sociology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Her work focuses on perceptions of and responses to injustice. Recent empirical studies have examined the impact of collective sources of legiti-macy on emotional responses to distributive injustice. In addition, she has been involved in a series of papers looking at antecedents (such as environ-mental identities and attitudes and perceived legitimacy of sustainability efforts) to perceptions of environmental injustice and to environmentally responsible behavior. She served as a coeditor (with Cathryn Johnson) and editor of Social Psychology Quarterly from 2011 to 2014. [email protected]
Guillermina Jasso (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) is a Silver Professor and profes-sor of sociology at New York University. She has written extensively on basic sociobehavioral theory, distributive justice, status, international migra-tion, and inequality. Professor Jasso is an elected member or fellow of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, the Sociological Research Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Two of her articles have won awards, and she recently won the Lazarsfeld Award given by the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association for a career of scholarship in sociological methodology. Professor Jasso’s Erdős number is 3. [email protected]
Cathryn Johnson is a professor of sociology and senior associate dean, Laney Graduate School, at Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Her work focuses on legitimacy processes within groups and organizations, identity processes, and emotions. Recent empirical studies have examined the effects of collective sources of legitimacy on emotional responses to distributive injustice. She has also worked on a series of papers examining the impact of legitimacy of institutional sustainability policies and programming on envi-ronmental justice perceptions, environmental identities, and behaviors. She served as a coeditor of Social Psychology Quarterly with Karen Hegtvedt from 2011 to 2013. [email protected]
John T. Jost is a professor of psychology and politics and co-director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University. He has pub-lished over 130 articles and chapters and four edited books on such topics as stereotyping, prejudice, political ideology, social justice, and system justifi -cation theory. Awards and honors include the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Erik Erikson Early Career Award, SPSP Theoretical Innovation Prize, SESP Career Trajectory Award, and the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice. He is the president of the International Society of Political Psychology. [email protected]
Elisabeth Kals holds a professorship for social and organizational psychology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany).
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Her professional preparation is as follows: studies of psychology in Trier (Germany) and Reading (UK), Ph.D. scholarship and postdoctoral research at the University of Trier, and visiting professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich (Germany). Her research interests include justice psychology, psychology of emotion, confl ict resolution and mediation, moti-vation research (especially in the fi eld of environmental and health-related behavior), decision-making in organizations, and other fi elds of responsible behavior. [email protected]
James Konow is the chair of economics and ethics at Kiel University and a professor of economics at Loyola Marymount University. He has held guest positions at Osaka University, the University of Gothenburg, and the University of Oslo and has served as an editor of Economics and Philosophy and associate editor of Social Justice Research . His work on economics and ethics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and happiness has appeared in numerous journals, including the American Economic Review , the Journal of Economic Literature , the Journal of Public Economics , Social Choice and Welfare , and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization . [email protected]
Stefan Liebig is a professor of sociology with a special focus on social inequality and social stratifi cation at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, and a principal investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 882 research project A6, “The Legitimation of Inequalities—Structural Conditions of Justice Attitudes over the Life-span.” His research interests are empirical justice research, organizations and social inequality, and methods of empirical research. [email protected]
Jürgen Maes received his diploma and Ph.D. from the University of Trier. After working with Leo Montada and Manfred Schmitt in Trier, he is now a member of the psychology department at the Bundeswehr University Munich, where he teaches social and confl ict psychology. [email protected]
Lukas H. Meyer is a university professor of moral and political philosophy (University of Graz) since 2009. He is the dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, since 2012, and a speaker of FWF Doctoral Programme “Climate Change” since 2014. Lukas received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1996 (University of Oxford) and Habilitation and Privatdozent in 2003 (University of Bremen). He is a faculty fellow in Ethics 2000–2001 (Harvard University), research fellow of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation 2001–2002 (Columbia University in NYC, School of Law), assistant professor of Practical Philosophy 2005–2009 (University of Bern), and lead author of the International Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment Report, 2010–2014. [email protected]
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Leo Montada is a professor emeritus at the University of Trier, Germany, Psychology Fb1. He was the fi rst president of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR). Together with younger scholars, he has worked on the impact of convictions about justice in personal and social life and on per-ceived social and ecological responsibility. On the basis of these studies, he has disputed the overestimation of self-interest in the economic theory of behavior. Another line of his work was the emergence and control of emo-tions, especially of those which are typical in social confl icts. All lines of research are merged in a psychological model of confl ict mediation which he has elaborated in the last decade. [email protected]
Elizabeth Mullen is an associate professor of management at George Washington University. Her research interests include justice, morality, and ethics. Her work on justice investigates the roles that people’s emotions and moral convictions play in shaping their perceptions of fairness and reactions to transgressions. Her work on morality and ethics focuses on how individu-als regulate and evaluate their own and others’ moral behavior. [email protected]
Tyler G. Okimoto is a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in social/organi-zational psychology from New York University in 2005 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University’s School of Management and in the School of Psychology at Flinders University in Australia. Dr. Okimoto was awarded the 2012 Early Career Researcher Award from the International Society for Justice Research for his work investigating the self-concept threats that follow transgressions and their subsequent implications for the subjective meaning and repair of justice (e.g., compensation, punishment, forgiveness, apologies, restorative conferencing). [email protected]
Susan Opotow is a professor at the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center. She served as an editor of Peace and Confl ict : Journal of Peace Psychology (2010–2013) and presi-dent of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2008–2009). Her research concerns confl ict and justice, focusing on the constructs, moral exclusion , and moral inclusion and examining how, when, and why the scope of justice changes over time. [email protected]
Sara A. Price completed a master’s degree in psychology at Georgia State University, where she studied the infl uence of the human experimenter on responses to inequity in capuchin monkeys. She is currently a research ethics program associate at the American Psychological Association. [email protected]
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Barbara Reichle graduated from the Heidelberg Teachers College (Germany) in 1975 and completed Diploma in Psychology in 1983, Dr. rer. nat. in 1993, and Habilitation in Psychology at the University of Trier (Germany) in 1999. Since 2004, she is a full professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany). Her research interests included social and political activism, women’s career development and family development, parenting and socio-emotional development of chil-dren, injustice in close relationships, distributions in same-sex relationships, and codevelopment and evaluation of prevention programs for parents and of a prevention program for promoting social and emotional competence in ele-mentary school children. [email protected]
Nura Resh is a sociologist of education and a senior lecturer (Emeritus) at the School of Education of the Hebrew University. Her interest and academic research focused for many years on the equality and gaps in education and the stratifying effects of school structure, especially school and class composi-tion, on academic and nonacademic outcomes of students. In recent decades, her research and academic publications revolve around the sense of justice in schools: teachers’ and students’ ideas of what is just and antecedents and consequences of students’ sense of (in)justice in school. [email protected]
Tobias Rothmund is an assistant professor for political psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Trier and received his Ph.D. for research on differential effects of video game violence on trust and cooperation from the University of Koblenz-Landau. His research inter-ests are located in the area of intersection between political psychology, media psychology, and personality research. Current research projects focus on the psychological underpinnings of justice sensitivity as a personality dis-position, personality and political attitudes, motivated science reception, and psychological reactions to perceived injustice in political scandals. [email protected]
Patrick Sachweh is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2009. Prior to his current position, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He works in the fi elds of social inequality, comparative welfare state research, economic sociology, and mixed-methods research. His research has been published, inter alia, in the European Sociological Review , Socio-Economic Review , and Social Policy and Administration . [email protected]
Pranay Sanklecha has studied at the Universities of Oxford, Bern, and Graz and is currently an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz. He has research interests in political
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philosophy and ethics, e.g., climate ethics, the foundations of intergenera-tional justice, legitimate expectations, individual responsibilities in non-ideal circumstances, and collective responsibility. He is currently working on a manuscript project dealing with the meaning of life and how to deal with the impossibility of ever knowing it. [email protected]
Carsten Sauer is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 882 research project A6, “The Legitimation of Inequalities—Structural Conditions of Justice Attitudes over the Life-span” at Bielefeld University. His research interests include the explanation of behavior, social inequality and justice, and quantitative research methods (especially factorial surveys). [email protected]
Lars Schwettmann studied economics at the Universities of Birmingham and Osnabrück. From 2001 until 2008, he was a doctoral researcher at the University of Osnabrück. He is currently completing his habilitation at the Martin-Luther-University Halle- Wittenberg. His main research interests are empirical social choice, theories of distributive justice, health economics, and prioritizing in medicine. [email protected]
Linda J. Skitka is a professor and associate head of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include the antecedents and conse-quences of moral conviction, how people think about morality in their everyday lives, procedural and distributive justice, and political psychology. [email protected]
Herman Steensma is an associate professor emeritus of social and organiza-tional psychology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Moreover, he is working as a management consultant. He was a co-initiator of the fi rst bien-nial Conference on Social Justice in the mid- 1980s and one of the founders of the Leiden Center for Social Justice Research (with Vermunt). His research interests include social justice, leadership, occupational health, organiza-tional change, quality of working life, total quality management, group dynamics, and aggression. He has published extensively on these topics, both in scientifi c and professional journals and in books. [email protected]
Robbie Sutton is a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent, England. He studies belief in a just world, the justice motive, and people’s appraisals of inequality and authority. Robbie is the author of Social Psychology (Palgrave MacMillan) and serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology . [email protected]
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Catherine F. Talbot is a doctoral student in psychology at Georgia State University. Although her main focus is the evolution of face perception, she has studied responses to inequity in several species of monkeys and apes. [email protected]
Kjell Y. Törnblom (Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia) is a professor emeritus and affi liated with ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich). He has published research on social justice, resource theory, confl ict, intergroup relations, and theory integration; co-edited three books: Resource Theory , Distributive and Procedural Justice , and Handbook of Social Resource Theory ; and was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Missouri. He is a coeditor-in-chief (with Ali Kazemi) for Social Justice Research and a member of the ISJR Executive Board (International Society for Justice Research). He has served at universi-ties in Sweden, the United States, and Canada, and his Erdős number is 4. [email protected]
Kees van den Bos is a professor of social psychology and a professor of empirical legal science at Utrecht University. His main research interests focus on experienced fair and unfair treatment, morality, cultural world views, trust, and prosocial behavior. Insights that follow from this basic research are applied in important societal contexts, especially in the domain of law, human behavior, and society. Topics that he studies include the issue of fair pro-cesses in government-citizen interactions, the role of group threat and depri-vation in terrorism and radical behavior, and the psychological processes that lead people to trust government and important societal institutions. [email protected]
Marius van Dijke is a scientifi c director of the Erasmus Centre of Behavioural Ethics and professor of behavioral ethics at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. His research interests lie at the intersection of morality, social justice, power, trust, and leadership. Issues he examines in his research include when power stimulates moral and immoral behavior, why people so deeply value social justice, and what the role is of conscious and nonconscious processes in moral judgment and behavior. He has published widely on these topics in top-tier journals in management and psychology. [email protected]
Jan-Willem van Prooijen is an associate professor at the department of Social and Organizational Psychology at VU University Amsterdam and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). He received his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2002 with a dissertation on group dynamic aspects of procedural justice. His pres-ent research focuses on (a) the psychology of injustice, notably punishment of offenders, and corrupt decision-making; (b) belief in conspiracy theories; and (c) the roots of extreme political ideologies. [email protected]
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Riël Vermunt is an associate professor of social and organizational psy-chology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has authored and co-authored many articles and chapters on justice and co-edited several volumes in English and Dutch. He is one of the founders of the International Society of Social Justice Research and is the recipient of the International Society for Justice Research Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014. In 2014, his book The Good, the Bad, and the Just was published (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited). [email protected]
Lesley Watson is a senior research associate at ICF International with a Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University. Her research focuses primarily on international issues, including work on the costs and outcomes of global HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, and social- psychological responses to cross-cultural travel. She has also conducted research on environmentally responsible behaviors, environmental injustice, and the legitimacy of institu-tional sustainability policies and programming. lesley.watson@icfi .com
Michael Wenzel is an associate professor in the School of Psychology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Münster (Germany) in 1996, with a thesis on a social categori-zation approach to distributive justice, for which he was awarded the Heinz Heckhausen Award of the German Psychological Society. Currently, Dr. Wenzel’s research focuses on justice restoration after wrongdoing in interper-sonal and intergroup relations, including victims’ motivation to punish or forgive as well as offenders’ coping with shame/guilt toward self-forgiveness and moral repair. He was the president of the International Society for Justice Research from 2012 to 2014. Michael.Wenzel@fl inders.edu.au
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Contributors
Michèlle Bal Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands
Christopher W. Bauman University of California , Irvine , CA , USA
Anna Baumert University of Koblenz-Landau , Landau , Germany
University of Western Australia , Perth , WA , Australia
Julia C. Becker University of Osnabrück , Neuer Graben , Osnabrück , Germany
Kimberly Belmonte City University of New York , New York , NY , USA
Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University , Atlanta , GA , USA
Mitchell J. Callan University of Essex , Colchester , UK
Susan Clayton The College of Wooster , Wooster , OH , USA
Ronald L. Cohen Bennington College , Bennington , VT , USA
David De Cremer University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK
Faye J. Crosby University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz , CA , USA
Dorothea Dette-Hagenmeyer Ludwigsburg University of Education , Ludwigsburg , Germany
John H. Ellard University of Calgary , Alberta , AB , Canada
Irina Feygina New York University , New York , NY , USA
Ronald Fischer Victoria University Wellington , Wellington , New Zealand
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies , Aarhus , Denmark
Mario Gollwitzer Philipps University Marburg , Marburg , Germany
Carolyn L. Hafer Brock University , Saint Catharines , Canada
Ella Ben Hagai University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz , CA , USA
Annelie Harvey Anglia Ruskin University , Cambridge , UK
Karen A. Hegtvedt Department of Sociology , Emory University , Atlanta , GA , USA
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Guillermina Jasso New York University , New York , NY , USA
Cathryn Johnson Emory University , Atlanta , GA , USA
John T. Jost New York University , New York , NY , USA
Elisabeth Kals Catholic University of Eichstaett , Eichstaett , Germany
James Konow Kiel University , Kiel , Germany
Loyola Marymount University , Los Angeles , CA , USA
Stefan Liebig Bielefeld University , Bielefeld , Germany
Jürgen Maes Bundeswehr University Munich , Neubiberg , Germany
Lukas H. Meyer University of Graz , Graz , Austria
Leo Montada University of Trier , Trier , Germany
Elizabeth Mullen San Jose State University , San Jose , CA , USA
Tyler G. Okimoto University of Queensland , Brisbane , QLD , Australia
Susan Opotow City University of New York , New York , NY , USA
Sara A. Price Georgia State University , Atlanta , GA , USA
Barbara Reichle Ludwigsburg University of Education , Ludwigsburg , Germany
Nura Resh Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel
Tobias Rothmund University of Koblenz-Landau , Landau , Germany
Clara Sabbagh University of Haifa , Haifa , Israel
Patrick Sachweh Goethe University Frankfurt , Frankfurt , Germany
Pranay Sanklecha University of Graz , Graz , Austria
Carsten Sauer Bielefeld University , Bielefeld , Germany
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz-Landau , Landau , Germany
Lars Schwettmann Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Halle (Saale) , Germany
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , IL , USA
Herman Steensma Leiden University , Leiden , The Netherlands
Robbie Sutton University of Kent , Canterbury , UK
Catherine F. Talbot Georgia State University , Atlanta , GA , USA
Kjell Y. Törnblom ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands
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Marius van Dijke Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands
Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham , UK
Jan-Willem van Prooijen VU University Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Riël Vermunt Leiden University , Leiden , The Netherlands
Lesley Watson ICF International , Fairfax , VA , USA
Michael Wenzel School of Psychology, Flinders University , Adelaide , SA , Australia
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