caa a22 4500 477122396 CHVBK 20180405111640.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02197248 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02197248 Dolinski Dariusz Department of Psychology, University of Opole, ul. Oleska 48, 45-951, Opole, Poland aut The belief in an unjust world: An egotistic delusion [Elektronische Daten] [Dariusz Dolinski] The main hypothesis of Lerner's just world theory says that people are inclined to think that their physical and social environment is just and that individuals generally get what they deserve and deserve what they get. Contrary to Lerner's assumption, however, it is suggested in the article that in some situations, people may perceive the world as unjust because such a belief has a specific "ego-defensive” compoment for an individual. It is likely, for instance, that the belief in an unjust world, though in itself a legitimate block to success, may be aggrvated in conditions diagnostic for competence and hence can be used as a special form of self-handicapping strategy. This assumption has been tested in a 2 (low vs. high tendency to engate in self-handicapping behaviors) x by 2 (low vs. high opportunity to use the belief in an unjust world as a self-handicapping strategy) experiment. The results of the study fully supported the author's predictions. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 just world nationallicence justice nationallicence self-handicapping strategy nationallicence egotism nationallicence self-serving bias nationallicence Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 213-221 0885-7466 9:3<213 1996 9 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197248 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dolinski Dariusz Department of Psychology, University of Opole, ul. Oleska 48, 45-951, Opole, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 213-221 0885-7466 9:3<213 1996 9 11211 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer