Transformation of the justice motive?: Belief in a just world and its correlates in different age groups

The Justice Motive in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Origins and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 64-82

  Maes, Jürgen ^a   Schmitt, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Institut für Integrierte Naturwissenschaften   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203575802     Document Type: Chapter

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