Immanent Justice Reasoning. Theory, Research, and Current Directions.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-161

  Callan, Mitchell J ^a   Sutton, Robbie M ^b   Harvey, Annelie J ^a   Dawtry, Rael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Deservingness; Immanent justice reasoning; Intuitive thinking; Just world theory; Justice motivation; Magical thinking; Moral reasoning; Religiosity; Social communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890285954     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800052-6.00002-0     Document Type: Chapter

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