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This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that, although it is typically portrayed as serving self-interest, it sometimes takes priority over self-interest. To make this case, the authors discuss the way justice emerges as a personal contract in children's development; review a wide range of research studying the influences of the justice motive on evaluative, emotional and behavioral responses; and detail common experiences that illustrate the impact of the justice motive. Through an extensive critique of the research on which some alternative models of justice are based, the authors present a model that describes the ways in which motives of justice and self-interest are integrated in people's lives. They close with a discussion of some positive and negative consequences of the commitment to justice

Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 An Overview -- Chapter 2 Immanent Justice and Ultimate Justice -- Chapter 3 BJW and Self-Efficacy in Coping with Observed Victimization -- Chapter 4 How Do Observers of Victimization Preserve Their Belief in a Just World Cognitively or Actionally? -- Chapter 5 Individual Differences in the Belief in a Just World and Responses to Personal Misfortune -- Chapter 6 Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Coping with an Unjust Fate -- Chapter 7 Belief in a Just World and Right-Wing Authoritarianism as Moderators of Perceived Risk -- Chapter 8 The Belief in a Just World and Willingness to Accommodate among Married and Dating Couples -- Chapter 9 Measuring the Beliefs in a Just World -- Chapter 10 Eight Stages in the Development of Research on the Construct of Belief in a Just World? -- Chapter 11 Methodological Strategies in Research to Validate Measures of Belief in a Just World -- Chapter 12 Belief in a Just World: A Hybrid of Justice Motive and Self-Interest? -- Chapter 13 The Two Forms of Belief in a Just World -- Index.