On the Psychology of the belief in a just world: Exploring experiential and rationalistic paths to victim blaming

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1567-1578

  van den Bos, Kees ^a   Maas, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Associative and propositional processes; Experiential and rationalistic mind sets; Just world beliefs; Victim blaming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RATIONALIZATION; SCAPEGOATING; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 70449632486     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209344628     Document Type: Article

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