DOI:10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_10 - Corpus ID: 40532419
The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again
@article{Lerner2003TheJM,
title={The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again},
author={Melvin J. Lerner},
journal={Personality and Social Psychology Review},
year={2003},
volume={7},
pages={388 - 399},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:40532419}
}- M. Lerner
- Published in Personality and Social… 1 November 2003
- Psychology
According to recent theoretical advances, these methods generate responses that reflect normative expectations of rational self-interest, and fail to capture the important effects of the emotionally generated imperatives of the justice motive.
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