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Melvin J. Lerner

Psychology

#297

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#420

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#198

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Social Psychology

#36

World Rank

#45

Historical Rank

#28

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PhD Psychology University of Kansas
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According to Wikipedia, Melvin J. Lerner, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo between 1970 and 1994 and now a visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University, has been called "a pioneer in the psychological study of justice."

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Melvin J. Lerner's Published Works

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The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion (1980) (2772)
Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead. (1978) (1513)
The Belief in a Just World (1980) (1117)
Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2003) (1062)
Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim": compassion or rejection? (1966) (839)
The justice motive: Some hypotheses as to its origins and forms1 (1977) (665)
EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE AS A FUNCTION OF PERFORMER'S REWARD AND ATTRACTIVENESS. (1965) (499)
The Justice Motive in Social Behavior (1981) (487)
Personality and social psychology (2003) (482)
The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again (2003) (267)
The Justice Motive in Social Behavior: Introduction (1975) (252)
The Justice Motive: "Equity" and "Parity" among Children. (1974) (245)
Deserving and the Emergence of Forms of Justice1 (1976) (245)
Reactions to suffering of others under conditions of indirect responsibility. (1967) (210)
Committing Altruism under the Cloak of Self-Interest: The Exchange Fiction ☆ ☆☆ (2002) (172)
Integrating societal and psychological rules of entitlement: The basic task of each social actor and fundamental problem for the social sciences (1987) (162)
The Justice motive in social behavior : adapting to times of scarcity and change (1981) (160)
Rejection as a consequence of perceived similarity. (1968) (160)
Responses to victimizations and belief in a just world (1998) (158)
Observers evaluation of a victim: Justice, guilt, and veridical perception. (1971) (154)
The Two Forms of Belief in a Just World (1998) (112)
The Justice Motive in Human Relations (1981) (103)
Entitlement and the affectional bond : justice in close relationships (1994) (84)
Deserving, the "personal contract," and altruistic behavior by children. (1974) (75)
Exacerbation of extreme responses to an out-group. (1984) (74)
14 – Social Psychology of Justice and Interpersonal Attraction (1974) (73)
What Does the Belief in a Just World Protect Us From: The Dread of Death or the Fear of Understanding Suffering? (1997) (62)
When do decent people blame victims? The differing effects of the explicit/rational and implicit/experiential cognitive systems. (1999) (61)
The heroic motive: Some experimental demonstrations (1983) (59)
Justice and Self-Interest: Two Fundamental Motives (2011) (59)
Altruism as a search for justice. (1968) (57)
Current societal concerns about justice (1996) (55)
Handbook of Psychology, Volume 5: Personality and Social Psychology (2012) (51)
The consequences of perceived similarity: Attraction and rejection, approach and avoidance. (1972) (51)
THE EFFECT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND CHOICE ON A PARTNER'S ATTRACTIVENESS FOLLOWING FAILURE. (1965) (47)
Effects of perceived norms on attitudes and altruistic behavior toward a dependent other. (1968) (46)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Pursuing the Justice Motive (2002) (45)
Chapter 11 – The Justice Motive in Human Relations and the Economic Model of Man: A Radical Analysis of Facts and Fictions1 (1982) (40)
Occupational Aspirations of Lower Class Negro and White Youth (1959) (35)
Entitlement and the Affectional Bond (1994) (35)
Adult children as caregivers: egocentric biases in judgments of sibling contributions. (1991) (34)
CONFORMITY AS A FUNCTION OF BIRTH ORDER, PAYOFF, AND TYPE OF GROUP PRESSURE. (1964) (31)
"A little time and effort"...Who deserves what from whom? (1974) (30)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Lerner (2002) (28)
A new look at equity and outcomes as determinants of satisfaction in close personal relationships (1989) (28)
"Belief in a Just World" Versus the "Authoritarianism" Syndrome...but Nobody Liked the Indians. (1978) (27)
The justice motive in human relations and the economic model of man (1982) (26)
Conformity as a function of birth order and type of group pressure: a verification. (1966) (23)
Interpersonal Choice as a Function of Ascribed Similarity and Definition of the Situation (1962) (22)
The Belief in a Just World and the 'Heroic Motive': Searching for 'Constants' in the Psychology of Religious Ideology (1991) (22)
The First Experiment (1980) (18)
Doing Justice to the Justice Motive (1996) (18)
Entitlements in Close Relationships (1994) (18)
Similarity and attraction in social contexts. (1967) (16)
Justified self-interest and the responsibility for suffering. (1971) (14)
Justice in Close Relationships (1994) (12)
Justice Rules or Ingroup Loyalties (1981) (12)
Identification as a function of the reinforcing quality of the model and the socialization background of the subject. (1965) (11)
Locus of Control, Perceived Responsibility for Prior Fate, and Helping Behavior. (1975) (11)
Just world belief. (2000) (9)
Hypocrites or maligned cooperative participants? Experimenter induced normative conflict in zero-sum situations (2010) (8)
The Second Experiment (1980) (8)
The Non‐Health Services' Determinants of Health Levels: Conceptualization and Public Policy Recommendations (1977) (8)
Law as a Social Trap (1981) (7)
Victims without Harmdoers: Human Casualties in the Pursuit of Corporate Efficiency (1996) (6)
The characteristics and performance of medical students during preclinical training. (1972) (6)
Hospital Care-by-Parent: An Evaluative Look (1972) (6)
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENICS IN SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED WORK GROUPS. (1963) (6)
The Response to Victimization (1980) (5)
The effect of preparatory action on beliefs concerning nuclear war: a test of some alternative explanations. (1966) (5)
The Influences of Commitment to Justice and Ethnocentrism on Children's Allocations of Pay* (1990) (5)
RESPONSIVENESS OF CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENICS TO THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS IN A MEANINGFUL TASK SITUATION. (1963) (4)
The Quest for Justice: Myth, Reality, Ideal: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Waterloo, May, 1972 (1974) (3)
A Study of the Critics of the Public Schools (1963) (2)
Pediatric residents' opinions on solo and group practice. (1971) (2)
Who Believes in a Just World (1980) (2)
Social justice issues: Introduction (1994) (2)
Deserving versus Justice (1980) (2)
Managers at Risk: The Hidden Costs of Normatively Justified Harm Doing (1996) (2)
The cohesive small group in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia. (1963) (2)
Understanding How the Justice Motive Shapes Our Lives and Treatment of One Another (2015) (1)
Just-world victimology (2013) (1)
Reactions to the Belief in a Just World Theory and Findings (1980) (1)
The Third Experiment (1980) (1)
Justice and Self-Interest: Commitment to Justice: The Initial Primary Automatic Reaction (2011) (0)
Introductory statement (1987) (0)
Two Views of Evil : Guilt is good and self-esteem is bad (?). (1998) (0)
Justice and Self-Interest: Emotional Aftereffects: Some Negative Consequences and Thoughts on How to Avoid Them (2011) (0)
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Social factors and chronic schizophrenia (1966) (0)
Bringing It Closer to Home: Justice in Another “American Tragedy” (2011) (0)
Justice and Self-Interest: How People Assess Deservingness and Justice: The Role of Social Norms (2011) (0)
Integrating Justice and Self-Interest: A Tentative Model (2011) (0)
The Assignment of Blame (1980) (0)
Frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2004: Proceedings of the 24th annual entrepreunership research conference (2000) (0)
Preventing the societal crises of failed expectations and threatened self-esteem in the new economies: A proposal for helping the “generation at risk” (1997) (0)
Contesting the Primacy of Self-Interest (2011) (0)
Justice and Self-Interest: Preface (2011) (0)
Justice and Self-Interest: Why Does Justice Matter? The Development of a Personal Contract (2011) (0)
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The Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: The Irrational Effects of the Justice Motive on Managers, Dismissed Workers, and Survivors (2021) (0)
Evaluating a field experience in community dentistry. (1971) (0)
Explaining the Myth of Self-Interest (2011) (0)
What Does the Just World Scale Measure: Dimension or Style?. (1983) (0)
Condemning the Victimized (1980) (0)
Toward a broader measurement of international entrepreneurship (2004) (0)
Social Behavior and "General Behavior Theory." (1969) (0)
Justice and Self-Interest: Defining the Justice Motive: Reintegrating Procedural and Distributive Justice (2011) (0)
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Justice and Self-Interest: References (2011) (0)
Three Experiments That Assess the Effects of Sex and Educational Background of Observers, Experimenter and Observer Influence on One Another, and the Reactions of ‘Informed’ and Nonimplicated Observers (1980) (0)
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Justice and Self-Interest: Maintaining the Commitment to Justice in a Complex World (2011) (0)

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