caa a22 4500 606241558 CHVBK 20210128101313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11211-015-0249-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11211-015-0249-3 Putting the "I” and "Us” in Justice: Derogatory and Benevolent Reactions Toward Innocent Victims in Self-Focused and Other-Focused Individuals [Elektronische Daten] [Michèlle Bal, Kees van den Bos] Reactions toward innocent victims can range from harsh derogatory reactions to great effort to alleviate the victims' ill fates. Using insights from research on just-world theory and perspective taking, the current paper investigates both negative and positive reactions toward innocent victims. Specifically, we propose that self-focused versus other-focused motives can evoke derogatory versus more benevolent reactions, respectively, toward innocent victims. By manipulating self-focus versus other-focus, we indeed show in two studies that a self-focus enhanced indirect victim blaming and derogation and decreased helping of innocent victims. Furthermore, when participants were focused on another person these effects attenuated. Taken together, these findings extend previous studies on just-world theory and show that both blaming and helping can be viable strategies to deal with unjust situations. The Author(s), 2015 Self-focus versus other-focus nationallicence Belief in just world threats nationallicence Victim blaming and derogation nationallicence Helping nationallicence Bal Michèlle Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut van den Bos Kees Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, School of Law, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/3(2015-09-01), 274-292 0885-7466 28:3<274 2015 28 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0249-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0249-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bal Michèlle Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van den Bos Kees Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, School of Law, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/3(2015-09-01), 274-292 0885-7466 28:3<274 2015 28 11211