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JUSTICE AND SELF-INTEREST
This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that,
although it is typically portrayed as serving self-interest, it sometimes takes priority
over self-interest. To make this case, the authors discuss the way justice emerges as
a personal contract in children’s development; review a wide range of research
studying the influences of the justice motive on evaluative, emotional, and behavioral
responses; and detail common experiences that illustrate the impact of the justice
motive. Through an extensive critique of the research on which some alternative
models of justice are based, the authors present a model that describes the ways in
which motives of justice and self-interest are integrated in people’s lives. They close
with a discussion of some positive and negative consequences of the commitment
to justice.
Melvin J. Lerner
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Psychology of the University of Waterloo, where he founded the Division of
Social Psychology. The majority of his research efforts focus on the theme of justice
in people’s lives. Much of that research has been summarized in several volumes,
beginning with
Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion
(1980), which
was awarded the Quinquenual Prize from the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion, and continuing in several coedited volumes: with S. Lerner,
The Justice
Motive in Social Behavior: Adapting to Times of Scarcity and Change
(1981);
with Gerold Mikula,
Entitlement and the Affectional Bond
(1994); and with Leo
Montada,
Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World
(1998) and
Current
Societal Concerns about Justice
(1996). In addition, Lerner is the founding editor of
the journal
Social Justice Research
and was the corecipient of a Max-Planck-
Forschungspreis and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International
Society for Justice Research.
Susan Clayton
is Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology and Chair of
Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She has published extensively on
topics related to justice as well as the natural environment. With Faye Crosby, she
wrote
Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action
(1992), which received an award from
the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, and
with Susan Opotow, she coedited a volume of the
Journal of Social Issues
on
“Green
Justice” as well as
Identity and the Natural Environment
(2003). She is also the
coauthor (with Gene Myers) of
Conservation Psychology: Understanding and
Promoting Human Care for Nature
(2009). Clayton is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and has served as president of the Society for Population
and Environmental Psychology.
Justice and Self-Interest
two fundamental motives
Melvin J. Lerner
University of Waterloo, Ontario
Susan Clayton
The College of Wooster

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