Social Dynamics of Legitimacy and Justice

Hegtvedt, Karen A.; Johnson, Cathryn; Watson, Lesley

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3216-0_23

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“…For loneliness, the results for the unforgiveness dimensions from the analysis excluding gender do not differ substantially from those presented here (available upon request). considering concerns about justice to be fundamental drivers of human thought, feeling, and behavior (e.g., Ellard et al, 2016;Gollwitzer & van Prooijen, 2016). Our findings highlight the possibility that considerations of justice may be important to obtaining a full understanding of the impact of ostracism, as well, and identify important questions for investigation.…”

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confidence: 66%

Associations between perceived injustice, unforgiveness, and psychological well-being among ex-communicants

Boon

Brown

2020

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Through the experiences of individuals excommunicated from a small religious sect ( N = 95), we explored the association between perceptions of injustice resulting from chronic social exclusion and reduced psychological well-being. We also tested whether unforgiveness toward the church—particularly a tendency for participants to experience lingering negative affect and rumination about their treatment by the church—mediates this association. Analysis of responses to an online survey about participants’ experiences of chronic ostracism revealed the predicted association between perceived injustice and both anxiety and loneliness but not depression and supported our prediction that emotional-ruminative unforgiveness explains this association. Our findings also call into question whether the psychological outcomes of prolonged social exclusion are necessarily chronic and debilitating.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

Associations between perceived injustice, unforgiveness, and psychological well-being among ex-communicants

Boon

Brown

2020

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…The victims must be in a preferential position throughout the reconciliation process. Effective justice processes recognize people’s suffering, increase feelings of safety, and recreate a balance between the two groups (Hegtvedt et al, 2016). Every unpunished crime is a source of new crimes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Forgiving a Genocide: Reconciliation Processes between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda

Carabaño

Ursúa

2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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The purpose of this research was to study the interviewees’ experience of their reconciliation process and the influence of the Amataba Workshops on their healing process. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with five pairs ( N = 10) of Tutsi survivors of the Rwandan genocide and their perpetrators, members of the Hutu majority; they had all participated in an intervention to promote reconciliation. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method was chosen to study the transcripts. Analysis resulted in nine main relevant categories that should be taken into account while designing a reconciliation-oriented intervention, including truth, listening to each other, justice, repairing the damage, and collaboration on joint projects. The results of this research show how these processes can occur when reconciliation-oriented interventions are facilitated. For some interviewees, these workshops have become a crucial turning point and helped them set aside the hatred and pain.

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“…The justice evaluation process is accompanied by three other processes identified in justice theory: It is preceded by both the actual reward process and the just reward process and followed by the justice consequences process (Hegtvedt et al, 2016;Jasso et al, 2016;. (1) In the actual reward process, the allocator, guided by allocation rules, uses rewardee characteristics and other inputs to generate the actual reward (A) for the rewardee.…”

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What’s in a Word? Just vs. Fair vs. Appropriate Earnings for Self and Others

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Despite Rawls’ famous call to distinguish between justice and fairness, these and other justice-related words often seem to be used interchangeably by both ordinary people and justice researchers. Based on a survey-embedded question wording experiment (N = 4534) fielded in Germany as part of the GESIS Panel, we explore the effects of three justice words— “just,” “fair,” and “appropriate”—on the sense of justice about earnings for self and others. We observe differences in the just reward, justice evaluation, and justice consequences by justice word. For example, justice evaluations of one’s own earnings are more negative, i.e., deeper in the underreward territory, signaling larger just rewards, when using “just” instead of “fair” or “appropriate” in the question wording. No such clear pattern emerges for justice evaluations of others’ earnings. Our analyses show the decreasing effect of an underreward situation on psychosocial health to be significantly stronger in the “just” condition compared to the “fair” condition but do not reveal differential consequences by justice word for measures of satisfaction and trust. Overall, the observed differences by justice words are moderate in size. Nonetheless, our findings suggest caution for justice researchers in communicating with peers and respondents and warrant further inquiry extending research on the role of “justice language” to other language–country contexts.

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Social Dynamics of Legitimacy and Justice

Cited by 12 publications

References 59 publications

Associations between perceived injustice, unforgiveness, and psychological well-being among ex-communicants

Associations between perceived injustice, unforgiveness, and psychological well-being among ex-communicants

Forgiving a Genocide: Reconciliation Processes between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda

What’s in a Word? Just vs. Fair vs. Appropriate Earnings for Self and Others

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