%0 Journal Article
%T Is it Desirable or Useful to Believe in a Just World?
%+ Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale (LAPPS)
%+ Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN)
%+ Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT)
%A Gangloff, Bernard
%A Mazilescu, Crisanta-Alina
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 1583-3410
%J Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala
%I Université "Alexandru Ioan Cuza Université de Iasi, Département de sociologie et Holt Roumanie
%V 51
%P 150-161
%8 2015
%D 2015
%K beliefs
%K social desirability
%K social utility
%K judgments
%K actions
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/PsychologyJournal articles
%X Recent studies have lately highlighted the normative character of the belief in a just world. Conferring an object the status of a social norm means assigning value (in terms of desirability and utility) to that object. So we questioned the value assigned to the belief in a just world. 170 employees were therefore inte-rrogated on the desirability and utility they would attribute to a future work colleague (future peer or subordinate) based on the responses the latter was supposed to have given to a questionnaire on the belief in a just world. It turns out that believers in a just world are almost always preferred to non-believers, both in terms of desirability, as well as utility, regardless of their future status (peer vs. subordinate). This result thus confirms the normativity of the belief in a just world.
%G English
%2 https://hal.parisnanterre.fr//hal-01702736/document
%2 https://hal.parisnanterre.fr//hal-01702736/file/Revista%20de%20Certecare%20si%20Interventie%20Sociala%2C%202015.pdf
%L hal-01702736
%U https://hal.parisnanterre.fr//hal-01702736
%~ LAPPS
%~ UNIV-PARIS8
%~ UNIV-PARIS10
%~ COMUE-NORMANDIE
%~ SHS
%~ UNIROUEN
%~ UNIV-PARIS-LUMIERES
%~ UPN
%~ UNIV-PARIS-NANTERRE