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Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, 388-399 (2003)
DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_10

The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again

Melvin J. Lerner

University Of Waterloo and Florida Atlantic University

Beginning shortly after the 2nd World War, 3 lines of research associated with relative deprivation, equity theory, and just world contributed to the description of the influence of the justice motive in people's lives. By the late 1960s, these converging lines of research had documented the importance of people's desire for justice;nevertheless,contemporary social psychologists typically portray this justice-driven motivation as simplyn a maniftstation of self-interest. The explanation for this failure to recognize a distinct and important justice motive points to the widespread reliance on research methods that elicit the participant's thoughtfully constructed narratives or role-playing responses. According to recent theoretical advances, these methods generate responses that reflect normative expectations of rational self-interest, and fail to capture the important effects of the emotionally generated imperatives of the justice motive.


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