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

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 388-399

  Lerner, Melvin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VICTIM;

CRIME VICTIMS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0344983289     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_10     Document Type: Review

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