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Investment in Long-Term Goals and Commitment to Just Means Drive the Need to Believe in a Just World

Carolyn L. Hafer

Brock University, chafer{at}spartan.ac.brocku.ca

The author hypothesized that the less one focuses on long-term goals, or the less one plans to achieve goals through just means, the less essential is the belief in a just world (BJW) and the less one will work at maintaining this belief when it is threatened. In Studies 1 and 2, participants’ focus on long-term investments was either manipulated or measured, and their reactions to a victim who presented a high or low threat to the BJW were assessed. In Study 2, the tendency to obtain goals through unjust means (delinquency) also was measured. As predicted, strong long-term focus and low-delinquency participants reacted more negatively toward the high-threat victim, presumably to maintain the BJW. Study 3 showed that the more one focuses on long-term investments and the less one uses unjust means, the stronger one’s BJW.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 9, 1059-1073 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/01461672002611004
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