On the Psychology of the Belief in a Just World: Exploring Experiential and Rationalistic Paths to Victim Blaming  

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van den Bos, Kees ; Maas, Marjolein

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 35 no. 12 (Dec. 2009), page 1567.
Topik: Just-world Beliefs; Experiential and Rationalistic Mind-sets; Associative and propositional Processes; Victim Blaming
Fulltext: PSPB_35_12_1567.pdf (408.53KB)

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This article examines why people may blame innocent victims of robbery or sexual assault. We propose that in experiential mind-sets associative links are formed between the victim and the negative event. As the creation of such links is independent of explicit beliefs, people in experiential mind-sets produce negative reactions to the victim independent of their just-world beliefs. Rationalistic mind-sets, however, instigate propositional and consistency-based reasoning. For people who strongly endorse just-world beliefs (such as people who have strong predispositions to believe that the world is just or whose just-world beliefs have been threatened strongly), learning about an innocent victim creates a logically inconsistent system of beliefs. This inconsistency can be resolved by blaming the victim. For people who only weakly endorse just-world beliefs, there is no inconsistency in the first place and therefore no need to blame the victim. Two experiments support this line of reasoning.

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