Program for ISJR Meeting 2023

19th Biennial Meeting of theInternational Society for Justice Research(ISJR)
in MunichJuly 23 – 26 2023

Location
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Mandlstraße 23, 80802 München

Organizational Team:
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Directory
Directory ............................................................................................................................... 2
Organizational Information ................................................................................................... 4
Schedule Overview ................................................................................................................ 7
Day 1: Sunday, July 23, 2023 ................................................................................................ 7
Day 2: Monday, July 24, 2023 ............................................................................................... 7
Day 3: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 ..............................................................................................12
Day 4: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 .........................................................................................16
Keynotes ..............................................................................................................................19
Keynote 1: Bertram Schmitt .............................................................................................19
Keynote 2: Johanna Ray Vollhardt ....................................................................................19
Monday, July 24 ...................................................................................................................21
Symposia I: 10:20 am – 12:00 pm .....................................................................................21
Room „Vortragssaal“: Populism and Political Ideologies ..............................................21
Room „Konferenzraum“: Morality and Justice ..............................................................24
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World and Well-being .....................26
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Oppression of Minorities ......................................29
Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Perspective-Taking and Decision-Making ..................31
Symposia II: 01:15 pm – 02:35 pm ...................................................................................34
Room „Vortragssaal“: Justice in the Political Domain ...................................................34
Room „Konferenzraum“: Societal Issues around Gender and Parenthood ....................35
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World: Current State and Future
Directions......................................................................................................................37
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Prosocial Behavior................................................40
Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Communicating Justice Issues ...................................42
Poster Session ..................................................................................................................45
Tuesday, July 25...................................................................................................................49
Symposia III: 10:50 am – 12:30 pm ..................................................................................49
Room „Vortragssaal“: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination ...............................49
Room „Konferenzraum“: Online Justice: Exploring the motives and consequences of
online shaming and censorship.....................................................................................52
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Responding to Global Crises and Societal Challenges......................................................................................................................................55
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Justice-Related Practices and Behaviors in
Organizations ................................................................................................................57
Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Justice in Education ...................................................60
Symposia IV: 01:30 pm – 03:10 pm ..................................................................................632

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Room „Vortragssaal“: The Differing Forms of Discrimination: The Psychological
Predictors and Consequences of Discrimination-Based Injustice..................................63
Room „Konferenzraum“: (Self-)Forgiveness .................................................................65
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Justice in the Energy Transition .............................67
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Organizational Justice ..........................................71
Wednesday, July 26..............................................................................................................74
Symposia V: 09:00 am – 10:20 am ....................................................................................74
Room „Vortragssaal“: Dealing With Transgressions .....................................................74
Room „Konferenzraum“: Antecedents and Consequences of Social Mobility ...............76
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World ..............................................78
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Economic Inequality .............................................80
Room „Heuboden“: (Dis-)Trust in Authorities...............................................................83
Symposia VI: 10:40 am – 12:00 pm ..................................................................................85
Room „Vortragssaal“: Reconciliation or Resistance? Social Psychological Research on
Peace and Justice ..........................................................................................................85
Room „Konferenzraum“: Moral Indignation - a strong social emotion and a key concept
to understand conflict and social change ......................................................................87
Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Behavior in the Courtroom .....................................90
Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Inequality and Inequity .........................................92
Arrival and Directions ..........................................................................................................94
How to get to the conference venue..............................................................................94
How to get to the Conference Dinner at Augustiner-Keller ...........................................95
Thank you! ...........................................................................................................................963

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Organizational Information
PRESENTATION FORMAT

Posters
Posters (dimensions: A0 portrait, 841 mm x 1189 mm) can cover empirical, conceptual,
theoretical, or methodological research. Each poster will be displayed in a poster session
as scheduled in the program. During the poster session, authors will be available forquestions and discussions. We recommend that you provide a QR code linking to a digital
version of the poster. Material for pinning the posters will be available. Posters can bepinned during the lunch break (12:15 pm – 01:15 pm) on the day of the poster session(Monday, July 24) and should be removed after the poster session.

Presentations
Presentations encompass empirical work, as well as new theoretical or methodologicaldevelopments. Each presentation is allocated a total speaking time of 20 minutes, which
includes the discussion (however, we recommend limiting the presentation to a
maximum of 15 minutes to allow for post-presentation discussions). Presentations arethematically grouped within symposia, either by the symposium organizers during thesubmission process (along with a general abstract) or by the conference committee. Eachsymposium will have a designated Chair responsible for ensuring adherence to thedesignated speaking and discussion time, as well as moderating the discussion. The
Chairs are listed as the first presenters in the symposium, but you can negotiate this role
within your symposium prior to the symposium. Computers and projectors will beavailable in the presentation rooms. If you plan to use slides for your presentation (e.g.,PowerPoint or PDF), please provide them on a USB flash drive. Staff will be available toreceive the presentation in the respective rooms 15 minutes before the symposium starts.
This way you can test your presentation in a brief test run.
INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAM

Welcome Reception (Sunday, July 23; 4 pm)
All participants are invited to join the welcome reception in the afternoon before theofficial start of the conference in the conference venue. We will serve drinks and lightfood in a relaxed atmosphere. You can also register and pick up your badge during thereception.

Conference Dinner (Tuesday, July 25; 6:30 pm)
The conference dinner will take place in the Augustiner-Keller, Arnulfstr. 52, 80335
München (instructions for public transportation to get there are provided at the end of
the program). For participants, the conference dinner is included in the conference fee.
Drinks are free until 9:00 pm. Afterward, we kindly request that you cover your own
beverage expenses. Note that the Augustiner-Keller is located approximately 45-60
minutes away from the conference venue. To ensure a timely arrival at the conference
dinner and avoid missing out on the delicious meal, we recommend departing promptly
after the General Meeting (around 5:30 pm). Cheers to a delightful evening of networking
and celebration!
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Junior Researcher Get-Together (Monday, July 24; 6:30 pm)
Join us for a junior researcher get-together exclusively for PhD students, doctoralcandidates, and other early-career participants. This informal event offers a great
opportunity for junior researchers to connect over drinks, engage in meaningful
discussions, network with their peers, and foster collaborations in a supportive andwelcoming atmosphere. And where could this be done better than in a traditional
Bavarian Biergarten?
We will gather in front of the registration desk at the conference venue at 6:30 pm andwalk together to the famous Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm in the English Garden,
which is approximately a 15-minute walk from the conference venue. While beer (a socalled "Maß" = 1 liter) and "Schweinshaxe" (pork knuckle) are Bavarians' favorite
purchases, there are other drinks and food available too (also vegetarian). The Biergarten
is open until around 9:00 pm, but we might decide to continue the evening elsewhere(around "Münchner Freiheit") and see what it has in store for us.
Please note that in case of inclement weather conditions, alternative plans will beannounced during the conference to ensure an enjoyable evening.

Cultural Activity (Wednesday, July 26; 3 pm)
After the end of the official conference program, you have the opportunity to join one oftwo cultural activities (this is, of course, optional). If you are interested in joining one ofthese activities, please book your spot until June 25 via our pre-conference survey. For
those who have booked a cultural activity, a nominal fee of 10 € will be collected during
conference registration (please note that cash payment is required). To ensure a smooth
experience, participants can make their own way to the designated meeting point for
their activity (meeting points are provided below). Alternatively, you may want to join agroup starting at 2:00 pm at the conference venue's registration desk, where we willtravel together using public transportation.
1. Guided walking tour through the city center (by Stattreisen München)
Munich's history started with the salt trade - and what happened then? During our walkin the center of town we explain how the city developed and what events had a lasting
influence until today.
Start: 3 p.m., Duration: 90 minutes, Price: 10 €Meeting point: Spielzeugmuseum (Turm des Alten Rathauses) (U-/S-Bahn: Marienplatz)
2. Guided tour through the Munich NS Documentation Center
This tour will give you an overview of Munich's Nazi past and show you how the city
has dealt with this legacy since 1945.
Start: 3 p.m., Duration: 90 - 120 minutes, Price: 10 €Meeting point: Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 München (U-Bahn: Königsplatz)

More information on the activities and how to secure your spot can be found here:
https://www.isjr2023.uni-muenchen.de/program/social-program/tour/index.html

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Conference Registration and Help Desk
Stop by and say hello to our team at the conference registration desk. This is also theright place if you have any questions or concerns you want to share with us.

Children and Child Care Information for the Conference Venue
Unfortunately, the conference venue is not specifically designed to accommodate
children, infants, and babies. Consequently, we kindly ask that children are supervised
at all times. Please further note that there are no dedicated facilities such as changing
stations, nursing areas, or designated spaces for strollers. We apologize for any
inconvenience caused and are happy to help with any inquiries.

Lunch and Coffee Breaks
Lunch and coffee will be served during breaks (see program) in the conference venue.

WIFI
Information on the WIFI will be available in the conference venue.

Contact the Conference Organizers
If you have any questions prior to the conference, please do not hesitate to send us anemail (ISJR2023@psy.lmu.de). During the conference, you will be able to find a memberof our organizational staff in each room.

Final Important Information
Please be aware that the main entrance can only be opened from the inside. While there
will typically be a staff member at the registration desk who can assist with opening thedoor, this may not always be guaranteed depending on ongoing activities. However, you
are welcome to step out into the courtyard from within the conference venue to enjoy thesunshine and fresh air.
Please further note that the conference venue is not fully accessible for handicappedpeople or people who use a wheelchair. Please let us know if this concerns you so that
we can assist you as best as possible.
Finally, it is generally permitted to take beverages into the presentation rooms. However,
we kindly request that you return bottles and glasses to the foyer after the sessions.

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Schedule Overview
Day 1: Sunday, July 23, 2023
09:00 am – 04:00 pm

PhD Workshop

Kardinal Wendel Bibliothek (KWH)

12:15 pm – 01:00 pm

Lunch Break (PhD Workshop & Executive Committee)

Foyer/Park

02:00 pm – 04:00 pm

Executive Committee Meeting

Konferenzraum

04:00 pm – 07:00 pm

Registration and Welcome Reception

Foyer/Park

Day 2: Monday, July 24, 2023
08:30 am – 09:00 am

Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Francesca Biagini (Vice President, LMU München)
Welcome from the Organizers by Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer (LMU München)

Vortragssaal

09:00 am – 10:00 am

Keynote by Bertram Schmitt (International Criminal Court, The Hague):“Law and Justice - Reflections of a Judge”

Vortragssaal

10:00 am – 10:20 am

Coffee BreakFoyer/Park

Symposia I

10:20 am – 12:00 pm

Various Rooms

Vortragssaal

Konferenzraum

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss

Viereckhof: Obergeschoss

Viereckhof: Heuboden

Populism and Political
Ideologies

Morality and Justice

Belief in a Just World andWell-being

Oppression of Minorities

Perspective-Taking and
Decision-Making

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11:00 – 11:20

10:40 – 11:00

10:20 – 10:40

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Good People for Real? The
Relationship Between
Populist Attitudes andUnethical Behaviors(Y. Xu)What attitudes about maleand female circumcision
can tell us about
moralization anddemoralization(P. Teas)

The Association Between
Personal Belief in a Just
World and Depression:
COVID-19 as a Case Study(G. Nudelman)

Sociocultural Engagement
in a Colorblind Racism
Framework Moderates
Perceptions of Cultural
Appropriation(A. Mosley)

When will people take theperspective of other groupmembers? A meta-analysisof the effects ofperspective-taking on
intergroup attitudes andactions(E. K. Buonaiuto)

Ideological Symmetries
and Asymmetries in Moral
Judgements of Toxic
Online Comments(V. Bojarskich)

Affirming Rawls’ Duty ofAssistance for Fairer
Access to Vaccines – thecase of Covid 19 Pandemic(K. Fernandez)

Is Belief in a Just World apersonal resource and acoping resource? A crosscountry analysis at anindividual level and at a
macroeconomic contextuallevel(I. Correia)

The Gradual Decline of the
Dark Duo: A Latent Growth
Curve Analysis of Colonial
Ideologies(Z. Bertenshaw)

How Relative Power
Affects the Impact of
Empathic Forecasting on
Social Decision-Making(M. Fedeneder)

Yesterday, all our troubles
seemed so far away Measuring Nostalgic
Deprivation(C. Grosche)Self-Interest Bias in Moral
Judgments(K. Bocian)Faith can move mountains- but where to? A diarystudy of how BJW links
social stressors to wellbeing(M. U. Kottwitz)

Epistemic oppression,
ethnic discrimination, anddominating the contours ofjustice(L. Levin)

The psychologicalconsequences of a decision
in a trust economic gamewhen focused on oneself orothers(K. Adamska)

Collective Self-Esteem andDominant Group Allyship(A. Chadha)

Measuring Morality:
Theoretical and empirical
Problems(A. Betz)

Culture matters! How
cultural values shape thelink of BJW and life
satisfaction(J. Babjáková)

Supporting Success andWell-Being for Diverse andUnderrepresented Student
Populations throughCurricular Resilience
Micro-interventions(S. Lee)Thinking Beyond the
Negotiation Table: Impactsof Externalities on social
justice in Negotiation(K. Zhang)8

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Ideological bias, anomie
and social change in Chile(I. Puga)

12:15 pm – 01:15 pm

Development of theSensitivity to experienced
Justice Scale(M. McKaye)

Foyer/Park

Lunch BreakSymposia II

01:15 pm – 02:35 pm

01:15 – 01:35

The apple never falls far
from the tree: Does
people’s BJW impact thewell-being of the wholefamily?
(K. Otto)

Vortragssaal

Konferenzraum

Justice in the Political
DomainSocietal Issues around
Gender and Parenthood

The causal effect of a local
increase in the share of
refugees on justicesensitivity and its role inexplaining regionallydifferent responses inpolitical attitudes(S. Bohmann)

Who are the “Others” andHow to Protect Them from
Discrimination: Human
Rights Courts’ Practices in
Identifying Vulnerable
Populations(K. Turnbull)

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss
Belief in a Just World:
Current State and Future
Directions
The Adaptive Benefits of
the Belief in a Just World
during the Pandemic(M. Donat)

Various Rooms
Viereckhof: Obergeschoss

Viereckhof: Heuboden

Prosocial Behavior

Communicating Justice
IssuesPolitical Ideology andWillingness to Cooperate(A. Burger)

The effect of the least
advantaged people’s
information on the
discourse in a group
discussion(Y. Souma)

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01:55 – 02:15

01:35 – 01:55

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How Victim Sensitivity
affects our Attitudes andBehavior towards
Immigrants(L. Köhler)

Transitioning Away From
Women’s Reproductive
Autonomy: Investigating
Changes in Abortion
Attitudes Following theTransition to Parenthood(E. Clarke)

Justice for me or for all? A
longitudinal analysis
demonstrating Justice
Capital(K. Thomas)

Intergenerational
Volunteering: Role of theIntergenerational Justice
Function(S. C. Schütt)Interactional Justice in
Private Communication
During the Corona
Pandemic(A. Thomas)

Migrants’ Attitudes toward
Distributive JusticePrinciples(M. Cusmano)

The interplay between
infrastructure and genderroles in transition towards
electric mobility usage(J. Tröger)Cognitive Dissonanceinduction as an“inoculator” against
negative attitudes towards
victims(I. Correia)

Social preferences andenvy: Linking benign andmalicious envy with social
value orientation(D. Mischkowski)

Art as bridge: Can
aesthetic contextualization
facilitate engagement withadverse topics?
(M. S. Altenmüller)

Parental defensiveness in
mandated child protection
assessments: lack of
insight, or a response to athreatening context?
(I. Hermes)

Measuring Justice Beliefs:
Ideas for Improving theFundamentals(J. Bartholomaeus)

The Effects of Envy in Joint
Decision Making: How
Feeling Envious Affects
Integrative Negotiations(H. Zhang)Creating Just Campus
Communities: Engaging
University Students in theDevelopment of Restorative
Justice Practices(C. Riley)

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02:40 pm – 03:00 pm

Coffee BreakFoyer/Park

03:00 pm – 04:00 pm

Lifetime Award Address

Vortragssaal

04:00 pm – 06:00 pm

Poster Session and Wine Reception
 Reducing non-cooperative behavior of victim-sensitive individuals throughcompensatory control (S. Nuding) Extralegal Factors Influencing Jurors’ Perceptions: Exploring the Impact of a
Defendant’s Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Socioeconomic Status (A. ElBassiouny) Building Capacity to Understand COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions in Essential
Patient Support Personnel (C. Skubisz)
 Belief in a Just World, Existential Fulfillment, and Subjective Well-Being of IT
Professionals: Before and During Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine (I. Kryazh & V.
Kholmanova)
 When Principles of Fairness Change: An Experimental Investigation of Shifts
Between Relational Models (N. Fischer) The Belief in a Just World and the legitimization of informal caregivers’ suffering (I. Correia)
 Responses to Unfair Distributions Depending on Self-Regulation and JusticeSensitivity in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study (C. Ritgens)

Foyer

06:30 pm(starting time at theconference venue)

Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm
Junior Researcher Get-Together

Englischer Garten 3, 80538
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Day 3: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
09:00 am – 10:00 am

Keynote by Johanna Ray Vollhardt (Clark University, Worcester, USA):“How do Victim Groups Respond to Historical and Ongoing Injustice and Violence?
The Influence of Context, Individual Differences, and Intragroup Processes on
Collective Victimization Beliefs”

Vortragssaal

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Early Career Award Address and Best Paper Award

Vortragssaal

10:30 am – 10:50 am

Coffee BreakFoyer/Park

Symposia III

10:50 am – 12:30 pm
Vortragssaal

10:50 – 11:10

Stereotypes, Prejudice, andDiscrimination
Teachers’ stereotypes,
attitudes, and judgements
depending on students’family backgrounds:
Results of an intervention
study(A. Tobisch)

Konferenzraum
Online Justice: Exploring
the motives andconsequences of online
shaming and censorship
Why do people engage in
online shaming, and who
participates? A case studyof shaming and shaming
backlash on Twitter(K. Zhao)

Various Rooms

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss

Viereckhof: Obergeschoss

Viereckhof: Heuboden

Responding to Global
Crises and Societal
Challenges

Justice-Related Practices
and Behaviors in
Organizations

Justice in Education

A good life within
planetary boundaries:
Assessment of expert
beliefs about (de-) growthnarratives(S. Berger)

Justice Enactment as
Identity Work: How Being
Fair Can Reconcile Identity
Tensions and Alter
Leadership Identity(J. Zwank)

The Correlation ofHonesty-Humility andLearning Goals with
Academic Cheating(N. Reinhardt)

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12:10 – 12:30

11:50 – 12:10

11:30 – 11:50

11:10 – 11:30

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Realistic Threat andIntergroup Prejudice:
COVID-19 and Social
Distance Preferences(M. Platow)

A qualitative exploration of
the experience andassociated impacts ofbeing shamed online(S. Muir)

Explaining Radical Climate
Protest: How Unfairness
Perceptions and Civil
Disobedient Protest
Intentions Develop OverTime
(A. Jansma)

Like leader, like follower?
How exploitative
leadership spills over todestructive follower
behaviors via justiceviolations and affective
reactions(E. Schmid)

The relationship between
university students'
personal belief in a justworld and their work
attitudes during the Corona
Pandemic.
(S. Münscher)Preference for the ingroup,or the ones at the top?
Belief- vs. status-indicativesocial dimensions shapeattitudes given multiple
group memberships(M. I. Weißflog)

Do people support
censorship of those with
pro-free speech stances?
(N. Doré)

When Neoliberals become
Activists: Global Crises
Motivate Solidarity, but not
Support of System Change(J. Stollberg)

One Employee's Gain
Might Be Another
Employee's Pain:
Equity Theory Predictions
Within and AcrossEmployment Arrangements(P. Klumb)

Perspective-taking andbelief in a just world
matter: Adolescents’ role
experiences in bullying
processes(A. Wolgast)

A Framework for
Understanding the Effectsof Structural Racism on
Health and Implications for
Policy(A. Kaur)

Motives for Online
Shaming: Doing Good or
Feeling Good?
(L. Woodyatt)

Correcting misperceptionsof inequality in resource
consumption increases
support for mitigation
measures(L. Nockur)

Too close for comfort: The
effect of relationshipcloseness and procedural
justice on managers'
experiences of layoffs(D. Patient)

Cognitive emotion
regulation strategies
mediate the relation
between belief in a justworld and subjective wellbeing(M. Donat)

What Counts as
Discrimination?
Meritocracy Shapes theAnswer
(L. T. Phillips)

Discussant: M. Wenzel'Fight The Power': The
Influence of Music on
Collective Action(S. Howard)

Authentic Allyship? Feelingauthentic increases
allyship behavior via
greater psychologicalstanding(O. Foster-Gimbel)

Discussant: K. Thomas

12:30 pm – 01:30 pm

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Symposia IV

01:30 pm – 03:10 pm

01:50 – 02:10

01:30 – 01:50

Vortragssaal
The Differing Forms ofDiscrimination: The
Psychological Predictors
and Consequences ofDiscrimination-Based
Injustice
Warrior (vs. Guardian)
Policing Mentality
Increases Support for
Police Demilitarization andCommunity-Friendly
Policing Policies(M. E. Fiagbenu)
The Religious Minority
Tax: The Psychological andProfessional Costs ofPracticing Medicine andReligion Among for
Muslim American
Physicians(S. Murrar)

Various Rooms

Konferenzraum

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss

Viereckhof: Obergeschoss(Self-)Forgiveness

Justice in the Energy
Transition

Organizational Justice

Do empathic offenders feelless like “victims” when
victims withholdforgiveness?
(M. Wenzel)

Leaving colonial, carbonlocked pathways in therearview mirror? (G)local
patterns of (in)justice inGermany's hydrogen
partnerships with Namibia
and South Africa(A. Kantel)

The Roles of Justice, Value
Congruence, andResources in Legitimation(K. Hegtvedt)

The Motivation to Forgive:
A Person-Centered
Analysis(T. Okimoto)Towards climate-proof andfair fiscal policies: A multifactorial survey experimenton tax benefits forcommuters(A. Rinscheid)

The impact oforganizational justice andfeelings on perceived trust
in interorganizational
collaborations(M. Grunenberg)

Viereckhof: Heuboden

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Why Does Terrorist Threat
Enhance the Appeal ofConservatism? New
Insights into the Role ofEmotion and Boundary
Conditions for Ideological
Shifts(F. Eadeh)

Culture is not onedimensional: Chinese
philosophies and theirinfluence on selfforgiveness(F. Zhao)“It’s not just white men in
hardhats”: Opportunities
and barriers for a Just
Transition away from oil
and gas in the UK(K. Jenkins)

Procedural justice andaffect duringorganizational change at
higher education institutes– a longitudinal study of
employee support forchange(J. Prantl)

Perceiving Anti-Christian
Bias Increases White
Christians’ Anti-LGBT
Attitudes(C. L. Wilkins)'Working through' aninterpersonal wrongdoing:a narrative approach toself-forgiveness(C. Harous)(No) Options to change:
Social justice perceptionsof carbon pricing and its
revenue use(S. Preuß)How zero-tolerance
backfires: The effects ofdisclaiming “Just joking”
excuses for discriminatory
jokes at the workplace(L. Mulder)

Applying intersectionality
theory to understand social
inclusion in regionalenergy transitions(A. Martinez Reyes)

True-blue students:
Organizational justice,academic identification,and legitimacy of academic
authorities as antecedents
of students’ loyalty to their
university(M. Główczewski)

02:50 – 03:10

02:30 – 02:50

02:10 – 02:30

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03:10 pm – 03:30 pm

Coffee BreakFoyer/Park

03:30 pm – 05:30 pm

General Meeting

Vortragssaal

06:30 pm

Conference Dinner

Augustiner-Keller
Arnulfstr. 52, 80335 München

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Day 4: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Symposia V

09:00 am – 10:20 am
Vortragssaal

09:40 – 10:00

09:20 – 09:40

09:00 – 09:20

Dealing With
Transgressions
Sympathy for the Devil:
People Prefer
Transgression
Explanations that Elicit
Compassion Over Thosethat Support UnmitigatedOutrage(M. Gill)

Konferenzraum
Antecedents andConsequences of Social
Mobility
Explaining People’s Social
Mobility Beliefs(M. Day)

Various Rooms

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss

Viereckhof: Obergeschoss

Viereckhof: Heuboden

Belief in a Just World

Economic Inequality(Dis-)Trust in Authorities

Effort- and valence-based
just world beliefs:
conceptualization,measurement andvalidation(Y. Cheng)

Taking the Justice Pulse:
Inferring Justice from
Inequality(G. Jasso)

Cross-country Differencesin the Impact of Organized
Criminal Groups Moderate
the Relationship between
Individuals’ Political Trustand the Endorsement ofStandards of Civic Honesty(G. Travaglino)Re-humanization: How
perceived remorse buffers
against perceptual
dehumanization of
offenders(F. Funk)

Educational Inequality:
Anticipated Cultural Fit
and Social Disparities inStudents’ Intention toEnter Higher Education(J. Stark)

Beliefs about Justice for
Self and Others: Links to
Healthcare Evaluations
among African Americans(T. Lucas)

Allocating resources tomultiple societal goals: Thecase of wealth inequalities(S. Sebben)

Why do people support
disruptive collective
action? On the role ofpolice procedural injustice(M. M. Gerber)

Did You Mean to Do That?
Examining the Roles ofFair Treatment, Legitimacyof Perpetrator, andAttributions on Responses
to Distributive Injustice(H. L. Scheuerman)

Socioeconomic status,
relative deprivation,interpersonal hostility, andthe moderating impact ofmobility beliefs(T. Greitemeyer)

Lost and Found: The Roleof Justice Motives in RealWorld Problems(R. Miram)

Evaluations of economic
inequalities in Europe:
Profiles of (in)justice ofincome and wealth(C. Moya)

Just dead, not alive:
Reconsidering belief incontradictory conspiracy
theories(J.-W. van Prooijen)

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Hazardous machinery:
perceived agency andblameworthiness of harmdoing autonomous robots(R. Dawtry)

10:20 am – 10:40 am

The influence ofexperienced and expectedsocial mobility on thejustice evaluations ofincome inequality(J. Adriaans)

Foyer/Park

Coffee BreakSymposia VI

10:40 am – 12:00 pm
Vortragssaal
Reconciliation or
Resistance? Social
Psychological Research on
Peace and Justice

10:40 – 11:00

When do we prefer moreredistribution? Studying
the Effects of Income
Inequality and related
Social Policies on
Preference Formation
Processes(S. M. Schneider)

The Role of Power
Asymmetry in Intergroup
Harmony and Perceptionsof Justice(D. Hawi)

Konferenzraum
Moral Indignation - astrong social emotion anda key concept tounderstand conflict andsocial change
Indignation: the powerfulemotional counterpart ofperceived injustice(E. Kals)

Various Rooms

Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss

Viereckhof: Obergeschoss

Behavior in the Courtroom

Inequality and Inequity

Magistrates and Social
Technicians’ perceptions
within portuguese juvenile
justice system(E. Pessanha)

Inequity Aversion: A Moralor Self-Interested
Response?
(J. Clay-Warner)

Viereckhof: Heuboden

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11:20 – 11:40

11:00 – 11:20

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Portraying Palestine in theSocial Psychology ofPrejudice andReconciliation – On
Imposing Moral Guidelines
on Oppressed Groups
through TechnicalConcepts(M. Albzour)
Blocking Peace at the
Checkpoint: On the
Negative Impact of the
Built Environment ofRepression(S. Penić)

Reconciliation throughResistance to Injustice:
Intraminority Solidarity
and Alliances at the Gezi
Park Protests(Y. Acar)

The role of cognition on
moral indignation andconflict behavior(R. Miram)Intersecting identities andjudging on the U.S. Courtsof Appeals(S. Haire)

Justice for everyone?
Differences in the Scope ofJustice in Europe(S. Liebig)

Proneness to indignationand its demarcation fromanger
(J. Maes)

Do they deserve sympathy,
derogation, or blame;
responding to miscarriageof justice victims(C. Sherman)

Fair in whose eyes? Justiceconcerns and housing in
Lisbon and Porto, Portugal(R. Ribeiro)

Modelling Polarisation
Using Justice Related
Traits(R. Geppert)

Subjective inequity
aversion: Unfair inequality,
subjective well-being, andpreferences forredistribution(F. Kalleitner)

12:00 pm – 12:15 pm

Closing Ceremony

Vortragssaal

12:15 pm

Lunch

Foyer/Park

03:00 pm

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Keynotes
All keynotes are taking place in the Vortragssaal

Keynote 1: Bertram Schmitt(International Criminal Court, The Hague)"Law and Justice - Reflections of a judge"
The keynote reflects some aspects of the social psychology of justice in proceedings at theInternational Criminal Court (ICC). Bertram Schmitt bases his thoughts on his many years ofpractical experience as Presiding Judge in different cases at the ICC. The audience will get
an insight into the reality of cases dealing with mass crimes on an international level. Emphasis will be placed on the role of victims in such proceedings. The keynote will also deal
with social and psychological factors in the decision-making process of judges.

Keynote 2: Johanna Ray Vollhardt(Clark University, Worcester, USA)"How do Victim Groups Respond to Historical and Ongoing Injustice and Violence? The
Influence of Context, Individual Differences, and Intragroup Processes on Collective
Victimization Beliefs"
In this talk, I summarize insights from nearly two decades of social psychological researchon how victim groups think about historical or ongoing victimization and injustice against
their ingroup (i.e., “collective victimization beliefs”). I begin by discussing the assumptions
underlying this research that is rooted in the literature on intergroup conflict and reconciliation, and the common focus in this literature on comparative victim beliefs. I present examples of quantitative studies (among Armenian and Jewish Americans, Hungarians, Poles)
showing that, indeed, inclusive and exclusive victim beliefs differentially predict attitudes
towards perpetrator groups and other victim groups. However, findings from several qualitative studies also show participants’ critiques of comparative victim beliefs, and the need toaddress other dimensions—such as intragroup dynamics, perceptions of power, and the temporal scope of the group’s victimization. I present a Q methodology study (among Black
Americans, Jewish Americans, Kurds from Turkey in the U.S., Hungarians, and South Koreans) showing inter- and intragroup differences in the complex patterns of collective victimization beliefs that group members endorse. This complexity is also apparent in the findingsof a qualitative content analysis of testimonies from 200 genocide survivors (of the Holocaust,
Rwandan genocide, and Nanjing massacre), examining lessons that survivors draw from theirexperience of genocide. Integrating the findings from these studies in different cultural andpolitical contexts, with varying levels of proximity to violence and injustice, and using different methodologies, I present an expanded theoretical conceptualization of how victim groups
think about and respond to historical and ongoing collective violence and injustice against
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Abstracts

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Monday, July 24
Symposia I: 10:20 am – 12:00 pm
Room „Vortragssaal“: Populism and Political Ideologies
Good People for Real? The Relationship Between Populist Attitudes and UnethicalBehaviors
Yang Xu
Associated with unfavorable socio-economic conditions, populism is often accompanied by arange of negative emotions and antagonistic attitudes towards the “establishment”. Whatwould be the consequences of such negativity? Here we investigate the possibility that populism is related to unethical behaviors. Moreover, as populist worldviews typically set the“evil elites” as antagonistic to the “good people”, we also investigate whether the relationshipbetween populism and unethical behaviors targeting “the elites” is stronger than that targeting “the people”. Through three preregistered studies, we assessed whether populist
worldviews may influence participants’ unethical behavioral intentions, their attitudes towards unethical behaviors, and actual engagements in unethical behaviors. Study 1 (N = 295)
used a cross-sectional design and investigated the correlational relationship between populism and unethical behaviors. Study 2 (N = 301) manipulated exposure to populist rhetoric byassigning participants to an article describing austerity measures in national healthcare, either with or without populist framings. Neither of these two studies revealed consistent evidence supporting a positive link between populism and unethical behaviors targeting “theelites” or “the people”. In Study 3 (N = 298) we recruited a criminal and non-criminal groupto guarantee a more accurate measure of unethical behaviors and compared a range of antiestablishment sentiments (i.e., populist attitudes, anti-establishment conspiracy beliefs, negative emotions towards the government, trust in the government, and perceived obligation toobey the law) between these two groups. Again, there was no evidence supporting our predictions. The current set of studies suggests that populism is largely unrelated to unethicalbehaviors.

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Ideological Symmetries and Asymmetries in Moral Judgements of Toxic Online
Comments
Vladimir Bojarskich
Surges in outgroup derogatory online content can be observed around significant social andpolitical events (e.g., the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, the 2015 Paris attacks). People’s political
ideology plays an unequivocally central role in how people react to social and political eventsand how (un)favorable they regard certain outgroups. It is yet unclear if and how progressive
and conservative people differ in their moral judgments of toxic online comments. Drawing
on the prejudice literature, we test two competing hypotheses. On the one hand, conservatives and progressives might equally condemn toxic comments when it targets ideologicallyfavored vs unfavored outgroups – the ideological symmetry hypothesis. On the other hand,conservatives compared to progressives might be generally less condemning of toxic comments irrespective of the target – the ideological asymmetry hypothesis. To pit these hypotheses against one another, we invited a representative sample of German citizens to a simulated Twitter environment and experimentally varied the target of toxic comments. We present results on whether politically progressive and conservative people differ in their moral
judgments of online toxic comments depending on the outgroup target. Furthermore, we
explore which facets of moral judgment (e.g., perceived intentionality, consequences) explain
differences between conservatives and progressives. We discuss our findings in light of how
they advance the psychology of online toxicity specifically and ideological symmetries andasymmetries generally, and we point to avenues for future research.
Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away - Measuring Nostalgic Deprivation
Carla Grosche
Make America Great Again, We Want Our Country Back or Take Back Control: The return to“old glories” is one of the main promises of radical right parties, picking up on widespread
longings of sympathizers for a rose-colored past. Many people argue that support for radical
right actors is motivated by relative deprivation, i.e. the perception of being unfairly worse
off than others. However, we argue that radical right ideology and voting intentions can also
be linked to nostalgic deprivation - the perception of an unfair decline of groups status in thepresent compared to the past. Preliminary findings support this notion by showing that thelonging for a glorified past is associated with increased radical right support as well as antiimmigration and populist attitudes. However, psychological theorizing is rare and previous
studies differ in their conceptualization and measurement of nostalgic deprivation. We seek
to fill this gap by introducing and validating a standardized self-report measure of nostalgic
deprivation. Based on a literature review, we started with a concise definition and conceptualization of nostalgic deprivation. Second, we developed a multi-item self-report scale that
captures nostalgic deprivation in regard to (1) temporal intergroup comparison, (2) perceptions of injustice and (3) related affect. Third, we estimated the reliability and validity of ourmeasure using empirical indicators of demographics, voting behavior, political attitudes andpersonality measures. By providing a valid measure of nostalgic deprivation, our results build
an important basis for future research on the motivational underpinnings of radical-right support.

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Collective Self-Esteem and Dominant Group Allyship
Aastha Chadha
Ample work suggests that dominant groups attempt to protect their privilege in order to continue reaping the benefits of being in an advantaged position in the social hierarchy rather
than support equity (Jost & Hunyady, 2005; Knowles & Lowery, 2012). Yet, we see politicallyliberal individuals with dominant identities engage in allyship behaviors (Proulx & Major,
2013; Lye & Waldron, 1997. Drawing on theory regarding White identity (Goren and Plaut,
2012; Knowles and Peng 2005) and theory on collective self-esteem (Luhtanen & Crocker,
1992), we suggest that the differences between liberal and conservative dominant groupmembers’ support for social equity stems from their different understandings of their dominant identities through private collective self-esteem. We argue that conservative membersof advantaged groups have higher private collective self-esteem, which mediates the effect ofpolitical ideology on the support of social equity. Liberal members of advantaged groups on
the other hand, have reduced private collective self-esteem, which undergirds their recognition of social inequity. We present 4 studies (N=1514) that support this notion, across two
separate domains, race and gender. In particular, although low private collective self-esteem
has been identified as detrimental for stigmatized group members (Crocker et al., 1994), my
results suggest that low private collective self-esteem may not be harmful to dominant groupmembers; rather, it may help them recognize inequity with more openness.
Ideological bias, anomie and social change in Chile
Ismael Puga
Classical theory predicted that people accept social hierarchies insofar they perceive them as
legitimated by society as a whole. However, so far empirical research mostly focuses on individual dispositions: we have paid less attention to how people perceive socially shared values, and to whether these perceptions fit with the actual distribution of preferences in society.
Using data from 2 (large-n, probabilistic) factor survey experiments in Chile (EPSOC2018,and 2022), this study tests the following hypotheses: (a) people tend to underestimate thesocial support for social change; (b) this underestimation significantly decreases the likelihood of participating on social and political actions and organizations; (c) this underestimation leads to higher levels of perceived social anomie. Data about perceived support for socialchanges includes three main dimensions: stronger state control over large firms, redistribution of reproductive labor within households, and the reform and democratization of the current political institutions in Chile. Using vignettes which represent different fictional persons,the factorial survey experiments allow to compare the preferences of interviewees with thepreferences that *other* interviewees would predict for them. Findings from the first survey(2018) support the previous hypotheses, while the 2022 survey is still at fieldwork. This replication provides this study with a unique opportunity to evaluate the stability of the findings
after Chile experienced a massive protest wave in 2019, the COVID19 pandemic, and thefailure of a constitutional process (2020-2022). The study is strongly connected with the theoretical discussion about the social legitimation of inequalities, the problem of ideologicalbias, and the link between these phenomena and social anomie.

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Room „Konferenzraum“: Morality and Justice
What attitudes about male and female circumcision can tell us about moralization anddemoralization
Paul Teas
People experience attitudes as matters of preference, norms/convention, or morality and cansometimes change between these domains. Moral attitudes can be especially consequential
for activism and social change, which has led researchers to examine how attitudes become
moralized. Because moral attitudes can have social costs as well, however, it is also important
to explore the processes by which attitudes might become less moralized, or demoralized. In
four studies, we examine processes of moralization using the target issue of male circumcision (which is perceived in the United States as a matter of norms or preference), and demoralization using the target issue of female circumcision (perceived in the United States as morally wrong). Specifically, we test the effect of messages designed to induce (in the case ofmale circumcision) or diminish (in the case of female circumcision) negative emotions, perceived harm, perceived autonomy violation, and perceived non-normativity on (de)moralization of the target issue. We find both within- and between-subject (de)moralization effects ofthese messages through multiple mediating pathways, suggesting that persuasive messages
can moralize or demoralize attitudes via several different mechanisms. Implications of theseresults for theories of moralization and demoralization are discussed.
Affirming Rawls’ Duty of Assistance for Fairer Access to Vaccines – the case of Covid 19
Pandemic
Klein Fernandez
In diplomatic parlance, global health diplomacy is a soft power strategy to collectively allocate
resources in solving the persisting global burden of diseases among the least developed countries. It offered a promise in reforming the status quo of an inefficient UN system until Covid
19 pandemic challenged the core of its principles, systems, and institutional actors. However,
the rise of vaccine diplomacy provides an alternative tool to global health challenges after
richer and more powerful governments were in a rush to be first in line in securing the supplyof newly-developed vaccines. Rather than making a negotiation based on the principles ofjustice, as it turns out, it was the transactional, inward-looking, statist-centered interests thatprevailed once again throughout the episode of health crisis management. In contrast to theprinciple-based practice of global health diplomacy, I argue that resorting to vaccine diplomacy is a morally unacceptable policy tool amid a pressing health emergency. I present thecase of the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany who have turned into the Philippines for recruiting experienced nurses to serve at the frontline of their pandemic response,and in exchange for timely vaccine supply for the latter. This became the lowest point of
global health diplomacy that merits further ethical analysis. To cure this moral infirmity, I
argue that Rawls' duty of assistance as the guiding principle in place of vaccine diplomacy.

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Self-Interest Bias in Moral Judgments
Konrad Bocian
Moral judgments' intuitive and affective nature leads to the expectation that an observer's
interests bias these judgments. Although the idea of self-interest bias is old, only recently,
research programs involving young children, adults, and groups investigated how individualand group interests impact moral judgments. In this talk, I will present evidence that moral
judgments of others' actions are biased and seen as less immoral when observers benefit
from these actions. Further, I will explain the psychological mechanism which explains why
self-interest biases moral judgments. In the second part, I will show that beneficial cooperation overcomes preschoolers’ aversion to antisocial others. Specifically, gathered evidence
indicates that by the age of 4, children develop a solid obligation to collaborate with partners
who help them to acquire resources—even when these partners harm third parties, whichchildren recognise as immoral. Finally, I will present evidence of moral tribalism, which confirms that group identity and protection of group interests shape morality judgments. In conclusion, I will argue that moral judgments are inevitably biased by the egocentric perspective,
which is easily and automatically accessible and appears objective, impartial and morally
right to people.
Measuring Morality: Theoretical and empirical Problems
Alexander Betz
The concept of morality is central for many branches of social sciences such as psychology,sociology, criminology, and justice research. There are many theories implementing morality
with their respective concept specifications. On a general level they can be divided into two
perspectives. First, normative-deontological concept specifications which assume that morality is objective and the same rules can be applied to everyone. One prominent example fora theory using such a concept of morality is the Situational Action Theory. Second, descriptive
concept specifications assume that morality is relative to culture and/or individual conditions,like Haidt laid out in his Righteous Mind. Many theories ignore this difference, which leads
to inconsistent measurement. In addition, many of the scales employed to measure morality
are simplified. For example, empirical analyses of the Situational Action Theory refer only tolaw breaking to measure immorality. Against this background it is important to construct a
scale that avoids these fallacies. To take a first step to rectify this situation and construct a
scale of measurement, a concept specification of morality will be proposed and existing scales
like the moral foundations, the sociomoral reflection measure and Situational Action Theory
will be discussed in light of it.

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Development of the Sensitivity to experienced Justice Scale
Marvin McKaye
We developed an inventory for measuring justice sensitivity and established its psychometricproperties with a demographically heterogenous convenience sample (N = 451). Justice sensitivity (JS) was defined as sensitivity to experienced justice in social interactions. Analogous
to the inventory for injustice sensitivity (IS; Schmitt, Baumert, Gollwitzer & Maes, 2010) our
inventory measures experienced justice in four perspectives. The three indicators “emotional
reaction after experienced justice”, “cognitive reaction after experienced justice” and “behavioural tendency after experienced justice” were used for all perspectives. Results from
explorative principal axis analysis with oblique rotation found strong support for a four-factor
solution. After item reduction, scale reliability (a) as well as correlations between JS and IS(b) were determined and regression analyses with styles of conflict handling (Rahim, 1983)
as criteria and JS perspectives as predictors (c) were conducted. All scales showed high reliability (>.92). Although ceiling effects were noticed, all perspectives were normally distributed. All correlations between the perspectives of JS were significant (>.45). Except of victim
sensitivity (IS) with disadvantaged sensitivity (JS), all perspectives were positively correlated.
The smallest significant correlation was found between victim sensitivity (IS) and observer
sensitivity (JS) (≈.27). In general, victim sensitivity (IS) showed the smallest correlations with
JS. The highest correlation was found between both observer sensitivities (≈.61). Regression
analyses suggested that JS can explain a significant amount of variance of conflict handlingstyles beyond IS. The results suggest that JS can be differentiated from IS. Altogether, JS
measures a new aspect of experiencing justice.

Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World and Well-being
Research during the last decades has consistently demonstrated the positive relationship between the Belief in a Just World (BJW) and various manifestations of Well-being (e.g., life
satisfaction, depression). With this symposium, we aim to provide further support to andmore nuanced understanding of this link, by analyzing mechanisms and conditions using
several methodological approaches (e.g., two time-point design, large surveys, and daily diary), diverse samples (e.g., representative, parents, and employees), and across cultures (e.g.,using data from Germany, Portugal, Slovakia, Israel, and Great Britain). BJW enables people
to see the world as stable, predictable and orderly. It provides meaning to daily events and asense of protection from harm, since events occur for a reason. Consequently, BJW can help
when coping with distress, depending on other factors. Building on these premises,
Nudelman and Otto examined the ability of personal BJW to predict depression during
COVID-19, over and above other known variables. Correia et al. tested whether general BJW
acts as a personal resource or a coping resource at an individual level and at a macroeconomic contextual level. Kottwitz et al. assessed if experiencing aversive social working conditions shapes daily perceptions of BJW, which in turn affect daily mental impairment.
Babjáková et al. demonstrated how cultural values shape the link of BJW and life satisfaction.
Finally, Otto and Nudelman focused on the impact of people’s BJW on the well-being of theirfamily.

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The Association Between Personal Belief in a Just World and Depression: COVID-19 asa Case Study
Gabriel Nudelman
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a deleterious effect on people’s well-being. This study explored the ability of Personal Belief in a Just World (PBJW) to protect against depression
during the initial phases of the pandemic, which were characterized by high levels of uncertainty and included the movement restrictions and lockdowns. A representative sample ofIsrael (n = 711; 50.5% women) was assessed at two time points. Participants completed questionnaires measuring PBJW, depression, the Big Five model of personality, and demographic
variables (t1). Depression was assessed again approximately six weeks later (t2). Hierarchicalregression analyses were used to evaluate the contribution of PBJW at t1 to the explained
variance of depression at t2. The results demonstrate that, when controlling for age and gender (step1), PBJW predicted depression. Moreover, PBJW also predicted depression over andabove the Big Five (step 2). Finally, PBJW was a significant predictor of depression even when
depression at t1 (step 3; auto-correlation) was included as a predictor. Naturally, varianceexplained in depression by PBJW decreased as the number of variables entered to the regression equation increased. However, PBJW remained a significant predictor of depression
at t2 over and above other variables in all the analyses. Consistent with past findings, thisstudy provides support for the link between the Belief in a Just World and Well-being, represented herein by PBJW and depression. The contribution of PBJW to depression remained
significant regardless of other strong predictors, and proves important also in times of global
crises.
Is Belief in a Just World a personal resource and a coping resource? A cross-country
analysis at an individual level and at a macroeconomic contextual level
Isabel Correia
Although the perception of justice is a core need of all individuals, the adaptive value of belief
in a just world (BJW)—in everyday life (the personal resource hypothesis) and when facing
severe distress (the coping resource hypothesis)—has been typically investigated in separate
studies, as if these two processes were mutually exclusive. Our aim is to test in a single study
the possibility that BJW can be a personal resource and a coping resource. We analysed datafrom the 9th Round of European Social Survey comprised of random representative samples
from 27 European countries (N = 47,086 participants). We considered distressing circumstances both at an individual level (health impairment and financial difficulty) and at a macroeconomic contextual level, as living in a poorer country (GDP) can represent an additional
distressing condition. We measured BJW with a 3-item scale of general BJW. We found BJW
was associated with higher well-being equally for people facing and not facing financial difficulty or health impairment, supporting BJW as a personal resource. Furthermore, the decrease of well-being of people facing financial difficulty or health impairment at an individuallevel, compared to those that were not in such distressing conditions, was higher for individuals with lower BJW than for individuals with higher BJW, supporting BJW as coping resource. Our findings support BJW as a personal resource under non-distressing conditions
and as a coping resource that sustains well-being in distressing conditions, and not a “pure”
BJW personal resource or BJW coping resource hypotheses.
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Faith can move mountains - but where to? A diary study of how BJW links social
stressors to well-being
Maria Udine Kottwitz
There is profound evidence that belief in a just world (BJW) is adaptively linked to well-being.
While previous research has emphasized BJW being a stable personality construct, in thisstudy we take on a more dynamic approach and examine whether BJW explains the association of negative experiences and well-being on the daily level. Whole trait theory argues that
personality consists of more trait- and more state-like parts, and we argue that also BJW
varies depending on situational cues if assessed on a daily level. Specifically, based on trait
activation theory, we assume that experiencing aversive social working conditions (such associal conflict or illegitimate tasks) shapes daily perceptions of BJW, which in turn affect daily
mental impairment (assessed as job exhaustion and being stressed). We tested our hypotheses with data from 125 employees who participated in a diary study on an average of 3.8
workdays over a two-week period (n = 446 day-level observations). Results from multilevel
path analyses (Mplus 8.8) provided support for the expected mediation linking daily aversivesocial conditions (in terms of conflicts and illegitimate tasks) via daily personal BJW (but not
general BJW) to impaired well-being. We discuss the theoretical implications for BJW theory
by illuminating that – contradicting the dominant trait-focused view – BJW varies on a dailylevel and that in line with trait activation theory it can be decreased or increased by situationalcues (e.g., unjust experiences, conflicts).
Culture matters! How cultural values shape the link of BJW and life satisfaction
Jaroslava Babjáková
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of belief in a just world(BJW) for well-being. Among others, the adaptive relationship between personal BJW (PBJW)
and life satisfaction (Sari et al., 2021) was emphasized. However, until now, there has been a
relative paucity of studies investigating variables that might function as boundary conditions.
Considering that PBJW was shown to act as a buffer (Ucar & Dalbert, 2018), our aim was to
examine if BJW interacts with cultural values when predicting life satisfaction. Particularly,
we considered the six cultural dimensions as introduced by Hofstede & Minkov (2013). Our
research sample consists of 677 parents recruited online in Germany, Slovakia and GreatBritain from August to October 2022. They filled in the Satisfaction with Life scale, the General and Personal BJW scales, the Value Survey Module 2013 and socio-demographic items.
Moderated regression analyses indicated that PBJW buffered the effects of uncertainty avoidance as well as Indulgence-vs.-Restraint cultural orientations. On the country level, for German parents, the values of Masculinity-vs.-Femininity additionally interacted with PBJW.
While Indulgence-vs.-Restraint acted as moderator in the Slovak sample, no substantial interaction emerged in the English sample. These results indicate stronger associations between PBJW and life satisfaction for values reflecting high uncertainty avoidance, high restraint (i.e., tendency to value withholding pleasures to align more with societal norms) andhigh masculinity. Our study provides valuable insights into the BJW-life satisfaction relationship in which culture has to be seen as a boundary condition.

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The apple never falls far from the tree: Does people’s BJW impact the well-being of thewhole family?
Kathleen Otto
The belief in a just world (BJW) endows individuals with the confidence that they will betreated fairly and provides a framework easing the interpretation of personal life events in ameaningful way. Because of these functions, BJW is positively linked to people’s own wellbeing. However, when it comes to effects of BJW for others, except of promoting helping
behaviour, the effects mostly focus on its potential downside in the form of victim derogationor system justification. We like to contribute to the literature by illuminating BJW’s positiveeffects on other people by shedding light on the role of people’s BJW for the well-being offamily members. We base our argumentation on a phenomenon referred to as crossover.
Crossover occurs in significant, long-lasting and close dyadic relations, where individuals
depend on each other and interact regularly. Assuming a crossover process of well-being
within the family, we speculate that people with a stronger BJW will not only show higher
well-being themselves, but also that their children and partners would report a better mental
health status. We further explore potential transfer mechanisms for this effect such as sharedsocial cognitions (cognitive crossover) or emotional contagion (affective crossover). Using
multi-source data in a longitudinal study, we studied parents’ (and partly their partners’) BJW
and facets of their well-being and their children’s well-being (e.g., life satisfaction). Notably,with our study, we broaden the knowledge on BJW’s role for sustaining mental health to its
adaptive effects on mental health of close social contacts.

Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Oppression of Minorities
Sociocultural Engagement in a Colorblind Racism Framework Moderates Perceptions ofCultural Appropriation
Ariel Mosley
Cultural appropriation refers to an action whereby an individual makes use of, imitates, ortakes possession of cultural products of an outgroup or source community. Compared toBlack Americans, many White Americans do not differentiate between high (i.e., White) andlow (i.e., Black) status actors when making judgments of cultural appropriation (Mosley &Biernat, 2020). The goal of the current research is to assess why some individuals exhibit alack of recognition of structural and historical racism when making judgments of cultural
appropriation. To answer this question, we draw on theoretical work on colorblind racism, aframework of racial ideologies that emphasize that group differences should be ignored, andthat people should be treated as individuals (Bonilla-Silva, 2006). Three experiments investigate the colorblind - racism hypothesis: perceivers who are highly invested in a colorblind
racism ideology —assessed along three dimensions including racial group identification, historical knowledge of racism, and endorsement of assimilationist ideologies—will see equallevels of appropriation in the actions of White and Black perpetrators. In contrast, perceivers
low in colorblind ideology will see White (versus Black) actors as more culturally appropriative. We for evidence for this hypothesis among White (Studies 1-3) and Black (Study 3) perceivers. These findings suggest that endorsement in a colorblind ideology can facilitate perceivers to ignore power differences between groups when making judgments of cultural appropriation.
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The Gradual Decline of the Dark Duo: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Colonial
Ideologies
Zoe Bertenshaw
Despite its bicultural and egalitarian narrative, inequality between the settler colonisers andthe Indigenous peoples remains rampant in Aotearoa (New Zealand). The colonial ideologies
of historical negation and symbolic exclusion (the ‘Dark Duo’) legitimate this inequality bydenying the relevance of colonialism to contemporary inequities and excluding Indigenous
culture from the nation’s mainstream identity, respectively. In the current study, we investigate whether endorsement of these inequality-promoting ideologies is declining among thesettler colonisers (New Zealand Europeans) over time. Utilising nine annual waves of longitudinal panel data from a nationwide random sample of New Zealand Europeans (N = 23,094),
we estimated two latent growth curve models to track mean-level changes in historical negation and symbolic exclusion from 2009 to 2018. As expected, both ideologies exhibited a
gradual, though slightly accelerating, decline during this period. Subsequent analyses revealed that age and identifying as male correlated positively with the intercepts for the Dark
Duo. Furthermore, rates of change were mitigated by age and male gender for historicalnegation, and by age (but not gender) for symbolic exclusion. Results thus illustrate a progressive trajectory of ideological change among settler colonisers in Aotearoa, and pinpoint
target groups that may have a longer way to go before achieving a bicultural mindset.
Epistemic oppression, ethnic discrimination, and dominating the contours of justice
Lisa Levin
The combination between wars, climate changes, financial meltdowns, political extremism,
and fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, once possibly considered a ‘doomsday prophesy’, iscurrently unfolding as a persistent context of modern life. Under these circumstances, anentrenchment of social Darwinism can be detected, and concrete efforts should be made to
distill, preserve, and extend practices and routines based on principles of inclusion and participatory democracy as precursors and expressions of justice. This becomes especially crucial, and at the same time complicated to apply, in polarized political regimes and regarding
superdiverse communities. In such cases, basic claims of entitlement to presence in spaces
where justice is realized or demanded, or even concerning the legitimacy of participating intheir construction are a matter of ongoing contestation. In this talk, I will discuss results ofresearch I have conducted on sovereign and majority domination of the contours of justicediscourse and action, with specific emphasis on marginalized and sidelined communities in
Israel who are victimized by epistemic and other oppression. This discussion will partiallyrely on some of the ideas put forward by Giorgio Agamben with regard to ‘belonging’ and‘localness’, and notions proposed by Didier Fassin about public policy, civil society and social
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Supporting Success and Well-Being for Diverse and Underrepresented Student
Populations through Curricular Resilience Micro-interventions
Sarah Lee
Resilience interventions play an increasingly prominent role in higher education in supporting students’ adaptive responses in the face of increasing acute and chronic stressors (Brewer
et al., 2019). Resilience is a dynamic experience of internal and external assets and resources,“the process of effectively negotiating, adapting to, or managing significant sources of stressor trauma” (Windle, 2011). Micro-interventions, brief and targeted practices including mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral approaches, are associated with increased resilience andpsychological capital across diverse student populations (Luthans et al., 2006; Umeda, Mach
& Browning, 2018). In fact, existing literature highlights the promise of curricular resilienceinterventions, as these represent a systems-based approach. Curricular resilience interventions in particular maximize access for underrepresented populations who experience barriers to co-curricular programs due to time and resource constraints (Quaye et al., 2019). We
will share the results of our pilot study conducted on our own campus, which is a designatedMinority Serving Institution (MSI). Our study included undergraduate and graduate student
popuulations and data were gathered in the fall semester 2022. We will discuss the effectiveness of different micro-interventions on student well-being, including measures such as selfefficacy, resilience, self-compassion, and (reduced) depression and anxiety. We will then discuss the general importance of curricular micro-interventions, best practices for administration (i.e., using unbiased language), and evaluation of student outcomes. The authors will
also share their strategies for choosing micro-interventions, obtaining institutional buy-in,
and training faculty in these practices.

Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Perspective-Taking and Decision-Making
When will people take the perspective of other group members? A meta-analysis of theeffects of perspective-taking on intergroup attitudes and actions
Eliana Kasichon Buonaiuto
Prejudice is known to have adverse effects on individuals who experience it, and societiesthat host it. One popular method for tackling prejudice is to encourage members of advantaged or majority groups to take the perspective of disadvantaged group members (i.e., “perspective-taking”). However, it is becoming clear that this strategy does not always reduce
negative attitudes and can sometimes exacerbate hostility. In this talk, we will examine when
and why perspective-taking techniques fail or succeed. We propose that perspective-taking
interventions fail when they do not account for the nature of the intergroup relationship between the advantaged and disadvantaged groups in question. We report meta-analytic resultsfrom experimental studies (k = 147 involving N = 21, 841 participants) pertaining to the effects of perspective-taking on intergroup attitudes and actions. We hypothesise that perspective-taking will have positive effects (i.e., reduced prejudice/increased support) when the relationship between the advantaged and disadvantaged groups is perceived to be more benevolent; but may be associated with negative effects (i.e., enhanced prejudice/decreased support) when the relationship between the advantaged and disadvantaged groups is perceived
to be more hostile. The findings of the meta-analysis provide key insights which can informresearch practices and improve mainstream campaign strategies.
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How Relative Power Affects the Impact of Empathic Forecasting on Social DecisionMaking
Moritz Fedeneder
A growing body of research on empathic forecasting (i.e., predicting another person’s affective experience in response to a future event) shows that individuals tend to overestimate theintensity and duration of other people’s emotional responses, especially to negative events(i.e., the so-called impact bias). Here, we investigate the circumstances under which the impact of empathic forecasting on people’s social decision-making becomes more or less evident. We hypothesize that more situational power increases the sensitive effect of empathic
forecasting on offers in social exchanges. Power was manipulated by comparing games inwhich allocators either had absolute power (dictator game), intermediate (delta game), or
shared power (ultimatum game) over joint outcomes. Participants (N = 427) were always allocators; the games consisted of one round only. Results showed that empathic forecasting
interacts with relative power in line with our theorizing: When individuals perceived more
relative power, the sensitive effect of empathic forecasting on offers in social exchanges became stronger. Our findings suggest that the synergy of sensitive empathic forecasting andhigh relative power generates action tendencies towards social responsibility. In further exploratory analyses we therefore took into account how empathic forecasting might relate tojustice sensitivity (perpetrator and beneficiary sensitivity). Future research should further investigate the implications of empathic forecasting on social decision-making and its connections with other-oriented personality traits.
The psychological consequences of a decision in a trust economic game when focusedon oneself or others
Krystyna Adamska
It was recognized in the realm of interpersonal exchanges, politics and economy that trustingothers is a way to conserve resources, not wasting them for actions whose main aim is to
avoid losses. But there is a challenge, due to the threat of losses and individual decisionreflects the implicit social knowledge on this risk. Being concentrated on oneself or othersreflects a social knowledge perspective on the consequences of the decision. Three separate
studies (N = 401) were conducted to answer the question of psychological consequences of
positive and negative trust decision made by proself and prosocialy oriented persons. In eachof the studies the trust game was used, and predictive power of self vs other focus was assessed. Self focus plays its role in supporting oneself when the decision is negative but notwhen it is positive. The mix of self and other focuses, that is perceiving oneself as a moral,
competent but not assertive person, enhances trust to superior when the trust decision isnegative. The self focus is not related to trust when the decision is positive while warmness
and morality are. These two aspects of self-reported prosociality are related to trust only when
the decision is made in the embodiment condition, that is the photograph of a partner ispresented. They are not related to trust when the partner of the exchange is an abstract idea.
The results of three studies support the significance of interactivity of trust decision and self
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Thinking Beyond the Negotiation Table: Impacts of Externalities on social justice in
Negotiation
Kai ZhangOver the past decades, there has been a growing awareness that the reconciliation of diverse
interests between individuals or groups to form social justice must be thoroughly addressedat all levels of society. Despite the societal significance of the reconciliation of interests acrossparties, the majority of negotiation research has limited its focus on processes that affect theresolution of conflicts at the immediate bargaining table, and it has ignored the fact that social
conflicts being resolved between the negotiating parties may impact the interests of otherparties who are absent from the table (i.e., social justice of a negotiations). Given this, building on research from social science and social psychology, the current research proposedthat the reconciliation of diverse interests of stakeholders beyond the negotiation table aswell as taking social justice into account are crucial challenges during negotiation at the table.
In a series of five experiments (N = 601, 3 interactive face-to-face experiments and 2 online
scenario experiments), we systematically investigated whether, when, and why negotiators
will take the external parties’ interests and social justice into account. We consistently founda proximity effect—negotiators were able to successfully explore the integrative potential at
the level of the proximal outcomes (parties’ outcomes at the table) but failed to explore theintegrative potential at the level of distal outcomes (external parties’ outcomes beyond thetable). Finally, our research investigated a cognitive tool (i.e., integrative mindset) that helps
decision makers take an inclusive perspective on the diverse interests both at and beyond thetable to form a social justice in a negotiation.

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Symposia II: 01:15 pm – 02:35 pm
Room „Vortragssaal“: Justice in the Political Domain
The causal effect of a local increase in the share of refugees on justice-sensitivity andits role in explaining regionally different responses in political attitudes
Sandra Bohmann
This paper is concerned with the effect of a sudden increase in cues for social injustice, operationalized by the increase in the share of refugees living in the county, on justice sensitivity
and consequential attitudinal changes in the political realm. Increased exposure to refugees
is hypothesized to temporally activate already present justice concepts, and thus lead to increased justice sensitivity. I further hypothesize that a higher share of refugees in the county
is likely to predict increased party identification with right-wing parties for individuals highin victim sensitivity, but not for individuals high in observer, beneficiary, and perpetrator
sensitivity. The paper uses longitudinal data from the innovation sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP-IS) and information on the share of refugees in a county
from the federal statistical office. Descriptive analyses reveal stronger victim sensitivity ineastern Germany. Repeated measures of both, justice sensitivity as well as the share of refugees in the county allow controlling for the initial level of justice sensitivity. First differences
analysis reveals that increased exposure to refugees increased victim, observer, and beneficiary sensitivity but not perpetrator sensitivity. Taking self-selection of refugees in certain
counties into account via a shift-share instrumental variable design does not alter the results.
The combination of a longitudinal and an instrumental variable design allows a causal interpretation. Further analyses reveal that increases in victim sensitivity increased the propensity
for increased right-wing party identification, however not significantly so. The results help to
explain other evidence on regionally diverse reactions to refugees.
How Victim Sensitivity affects our Attitudes and Behavior towards Immigrants
Lucas Köhler
Four studies explore the relation between victim sensitivity – the sensitivity to self-related
injustice – and anti-immigration attitudes. Based on theoretical considerations and prior research, we hypothesize that victim sensitivity positively predicts anti-immigration attitudes
over and above political orientation and ideology. In a longitudinal study (Study 1, N = 1.038)
with a two-year time interval we show that victim sensitivity predicts anti-immigration attitudes over and above right-wing authoritarianism. Results from two cross-sectional studies(Study 2, N = 299; Study 3, N = 209) provide preliminary support for the idea that a heightened fear of exploitation among victim-sensitive individuals explains the proposed effect on
anti-immigration attitudes. To test this hypothesis more rigidly and to investigate possible
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Migrants’ Attitudes toward Distributive Justice Principles
Margherita Cusmano
Empirical social justice scholarship has uncovered that beliefs and evaluations of economic
inequality differ both within and across societies. Scholars have pointed at institutional structures and individual characteristics, such as income and profession, as factors driving suchdifferences. However, little attention has so far been paid to immigration as a factor underlying different perspectives on distributive justice. This paper discusses reasons why immigrants may hold different views than non-immigrants. Further, it presents analyses testing towhat extent such differences can be shown empirically. Through an analysis of the Diversity
Assent in Urban Germany dataset, the study first explores the extent to which immigrants
agree with different distributive justice principles; then, it tests whether migrants responddifferently compared with non-migrants. The paper thus aims at exploring migration as apossible driver of distributive justice preferences.

Room „Konferenzraum“: Societal Issues around Gender and Parenthood
Who are the “Others” and How to Protect Them from Discrimination: Human Rights
Courts’ Practices in Identifying Vulnerable Populations
Konrad Turnbull
Recently, the peculiar case of NA v United Kingdom was communicated to the European
Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). In short, the applicant is claiming that they faced discriminatory treatment due to the ‘[a]lleged absence of judicial remedy for members of the Houseof Lords and Members of Parliament accused of sexual misconduct’. It seems quite surreal
to give credence to the notion that potential perpetrators of sexual misconduct could be considered a victim of discrimination, especially considering that their alleged victims themselves are likely victims of discrimination in the form of sexual and/or gender-based violence.
However, there may be legal merit to the idea that politicians without access to adequate
judicial remedies could face discrimination. Although, and what will be the focus of this research talk, this question of exactly how courts identify “groups” susceptible to discrimination is one that requires further research. To clarify, the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights (IACtHR) identifies ‘vulnerable groups’, whilst the ECtHR refers to ‘protected groups’.
Additionally, in the dawn of discrimination law, courts and scholarship generally had a more
limited focus, i.e. discrimination based on race, religion, or sex. Yet, over time courts, likethe IACtHR & ECtHR, have evolved and expanded the scope of these groups to include discrimination against human rights defenders, or based on gender identity, familial composition, amongst "other" statuses. Therefore, through exploring existing practice on how international courts have identified “new” groups, we may better understand (especially structural) discrimination and offer further transparency for victims, scholars, and lawyers alike.

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Transitioning Away From Women’s Reproductive Autonomy: Investigating Changes in
Abortion Attitudes Following the Transition to Parenthood
Eden Clarke
Despite support for elective and traumatic abortion gradually increasing over time, the recent
reversal of Roe v. Wade in the United States demonstrates the precarity of women’s reproductive rights. The transition to parenthood is an unexamined event that may contribute tothis uncertainty by fostering conservative values that undermine support for women’s reproductive rights. To address this oversight, the current study utilises nine annual waves (20112019) of longitudinal panel data to perform an event-aligned piecewise latent growth curvemodel and investigate the rates of change in support for elective and traumatic abortion in
the year(s) before and after participants became parents (N = 1,266). As predicted, support
for elective and traumatic abortion increased in the year(s) preceding the transition toparenthood. After the transition, support for elective abortion continued to increase (albeit ata slower rate), whereas the rate of change in support for traumatic abortion stabilised. These
results demonstrate that the process of becoming a parent undermines abortion support,
particularly in the case of traumatic abortion.
The interplay between infrastructure and gender roles in transition towards electric
mobility usage
Josephine Tröger
People adopt electric vehicles (EV) when they perceive a high compatibility of the EV with
their personal values and needs in everyday life. Early adopter studies show that men adopt
electric cars more often than women. Based on gendered roles in our society and interrelated
gender differences in green behaviour, it is likely that current e-mobility infrastructure, especially at the workplace, seems more compatible with men’s needs than with women’s
needs. One need difference may be intertwined with the fact that men more often performfull-time jobs and contribute to the role as ‘bread winners’ whilst women more often havepart-time jobs performing the ‘care givers’ role. We argue that it is necessary to understandthese interrelations and integrate needs and mobility patters of diverse groups into infrastructural planning to increase transformation and guarantee a just and gender-equal mobility transition. Our study explores gender effects in perceived compatibility of needs and values regarding e-mobility and charging infrastructure at people’s workplace. We invited
Fraunhofer employees across Germany to take part in an online survey measuring their attitudes and behavioural intentions before and after installation of semi-public charging infrastructure at their workplace (Nt1 = 1183, Nt2 = 506, Nt1&t2 = 259). We analyse interrelations
between paid working time, gender identities, need and value compatibility determining acceptance and adoption of EV. Results will be presented and discussed from a social justiceand gender equality perspective considering policies that aim to support diffusion of EV.

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Parental defensiveness in mandated child protection assessments: lack of insight, or a
response to a threatening context?
Isabelle Hermes
While often experienced as a punitive response by parents, the purported aim of statutory
child protection intervention with parents who have been deemed to have caused harm totheir children is restorative. Once a child is removed from the care of their parents, childprotection agencies in Anglophone countries (those that typically adopt a ‘child protection’orientation) often require parents to undergo a parenting capacity assessment to determine
the viability of family reunification. In Australia, key considerations that affect reunification
recommendations within parenting capacity assessments are the capacity for parents toacknowledge their responsibility for the child protection concerns, show insight into theseconcerns, and identify a pathway to sustained behaviour change. However, it is commonly
assessed that parents do not take responsibility of, or demonstrate insight into, concerns
raised, and reunification rates in all Anglophone countries remain low relative to rates ofremoval. This study qualitatively examined the assessments of parental engagement in parenting capacity assessments made by child protection practitioners. While acts of defensiveness, minimisation, and deflection of blame were assessed by practitioners as demonstrationsof limited insight into child protection concerns, research in the areas of psychological needs,
motivation, and identity shed light into the ways in which the nature and context of the assessment process may invoke such responses from participants. Implications and alternative
ways of working with parents who are themselves commonly victim/survivors of interpersonaland systemic abuse and violence, and who hold multiple, intersecting, stigmatised identities
are discussed in relation to the notion of responsibility taking.

Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World: Current State andFuture Directions
Over the last 50 years, research has shown that belief in a just world (BJW) can lead to sometimes more and sometimes less adaptive consequences. Current debates about the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic and people’s attitudes towards climate change prompt the question:
how are these phenomena connected with justice convictions and experiences? Therefore,
the first talk investigates relations between BJW, perceived control, perceived risk, and hopelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic with an international sample of adults. The second
talk also provides data from a globally diverse sample of adults and investigates climatechange denial in relation to BJW and environmental identity. In the third talk, a new approachto studying BJW is presented. A longitudinal study investigates the relations between adolescents’ just-world gap—the difference between people’s personal and general BJW—and avariety of sociodemographic variables, such as wealth, gender, and cultural background. The
fourth talk provides data from two experiments, showing that the justice motive leads toblaming innocent victims. Importantly, the author investigates the extent to which inducing
cognitive dissonance and awareness leads to reduced victim blaming. Lastly, the fifth talkpresents two studies focusing on the measurement of personal and general BJW. The author
shows that explicitly contrasting item wordings can lead to differential associations with outcomes, such as life satisfaction and optimism. Considering such features in measurements
may lead to more reliable BJW research. Aligning with the theme of this symposium, eachtalk will endeavor to emphasize important future directions for BJW research.
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The Adaptive Benefits of the Belief in a Just World during the Pandemic
Matthias Donat
In a cross-sectional questionnaire study, we investigated the relationships between belief ina just world (BJW), perceived COVID-19-specific control, perceived risk-self and -others, andhopelessness among a globally diverse sample during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the adaptive functions of BJW, we expected that BJW can serve as a psychological resource during the pandemic. In detail, we hypothesized that BJW and perceived
COVID-19-specific control would negatively relate to hopelessness, and perceived COVID-19specific risk-self and -others would positively relate to hopelessness. We also hypothesizedthat BJW would positively relate to perceived COVID-19-specific control, but negatively toperceived COVID-19-specific risk -self and -others. A total of 1,250 people from Australia,
Brazil, Germany, Russia, Turkey, and USA completed an online questionnaire. The results
revealed that, when controlling for gender, age, country of residence, and being in a risk
group for COVID-19 (e.g., smoker, old age, chronic disease etc.), a stronger personal andgeneral BJW and higher perceived COVID-19-specific control and COVID-19-specific riskothers were related to a decreased hopelessness. How at-risk participants perceived themselves to be for COVID-19 was positively related to hopelessness. Moreover, the results also
showed that personal BJW was negatively related to perceived COVID-19-specific risk-selfand positively to perceived COVID-19-specific control but not to perceived COVID-19-specificrisk-others. General BJW was negatively related to perceived COVID-19-specific risk-otherand positively with perceived COVID-19-specific control, but not with perceived COVID-19specific risk-self. Overall, the results confirm that BJW can provide individuals with benefits
to cope with uncertainties during a pandemic.
Justice for me or for all? A longitudinal analysis demonstrating Justice Capital
Kendra Thomas
Justice beliefs are differentiated between perceptions of world fairness (General Belief in a
Just World; GBJW), and personal life fairness (Personal Belief in a Just World; PBJW; Lipkus
et al., 1996). How much someone differentiates between these is the just world gap (PBJW
minus GBJW; Thomas & Rodrigues, 2019) with a greater gap indicating a greater perceived
personal buffer to injustice. This study tracks justice beliefs longitudinally (ages 12, 13, and
14) in a diverse sample of 659 adolescents (51.3% male; 45.2% white) in the city of São
Paulo. Just world gap was significantly higher across time points for those in private schools,
higher for whites than non-whites, and increasingly differentiated across income levels. Kmeans clustering was used to understand naturally occurring trajectories of justice beliefs
and the five identified clusters were compared concerning sociodemographic variables.
Those who consistently had a high gap were the wealthiest on average of all clusters and82.9% attended private schools. Only one cluster had a GBJW trajectory higher than PBJW
and these adolescents had the lowest family income average and were disproportionately
female, non-white, and in poorly funded schools. The presentation will detail the clusters andhow demographics differentiate adolescents' understanding of justice in the world. This study
highlights the sophistication of adolescent understanding of contextual inequality. Results
support the justice capital perspective, showcasing how access to justice can differ acrossstatus (gender, income), and effort-effect pipeline (schools). Supported by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under Grant Number: 2013/07923-7.
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Cognitive Dissonance induction as an “inoculator” against negative attitudes towards
victims
Isabel Correia
The ‘belief in a just world (BJW)’ and the related ‘justice motive’ can be construed as a fundamental drive-in people’s life. Paradoxically this ‘justice motive’ may motivate people to be
unfair by assigning blame to objectively innocent victims. In two experimental studies, weaddress the possibility that inducing cognitive dissonance can reduce the assigning of blame
to innocent victims. Study 1 (n=71) consisted of a 2 x 2 design in which participants wererandomly assigned to two types of induction (Dissonance induction / Awareness Induction
Only condition) and two victims’ background conditions (innocent victim v non-innocent victim). In Study 2 (n=171) 3 types of induction were compared (Dissonance Induction / Awareness Induction / Control condition) with all victims’ scenarios considering them innocent.
Study 1 showed that innocent victims were less negatively evaluated in the Dissonance Induction condition compared to the Awareness Only Induction condition; non-innocent victims
were not differently evaluated in both conditions. Study 2 showed that innocent victims wereless negatively evaluated in the Dissonance Induction condition compared to the AwarenessInduction condition and the Control condition. Overall, findings suggest that cognitive dissonance induction can be an effective mechanism to reduce assigning blame to innocent victims.
Measuring Justice Beliefs: Ideas for Improving the Fundamentals
Jonathan Bartholomaeus
The individual differences measurement of the belief in a just world (BJW) is intuitively appealing and has allowed for the widespread study of BJW. Unfortunately, however, only minor
efforts have been given to the ongoing psychometric validation of BJW measurement tools.
In this presentation, I will discuss two new studies that focus on BJW measurement. Thesestudies broadly cover the cross-cultural applicability of BJW measurement and the notion of
ambiguity in widely used BJW measures. Findings on the psychometric equivalency of Dalbert’s (1999) personal and general BJW measures across six countries (Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia, Turkey, and the USA) indicate that factor structures and item functioning arelargely equivalent across countries. However, differences in the strength of endorsement of
BJW indicates that cultural factors may influence the formation and expression of BJW. Ambiguities may arise when responding to Lipkus et al.’s (1996) popular measure of BJW-self.
One such ambiguity is the type of justice experience (positive/negative) the respondent calls
to mind. When this aspect of the items is explicitly contrasted (i.e., “I feel that I get the
good/bad things I deserve”) differential associations with life satisfaction, optimism, gratitude, psychological entitlement arise. These findings suggest that further refinement of BJW
measures will lead to clearer and more reliable research. Based on the insights gained fromthese studies, I will discuss a number of promising avenues for future research in BJW scholarship that will place the discipline on a firmer psychometric footing.

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Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Prosocial Behavior
Political Ideology and Willingness to Cooperate
Alex Burger
Prior research suggests that individuals who endorse right- versus left-wing political views
tend to be less cooperative toward others. In this research project, I aim to take a closer lookat the association of political-ideological orientations with individuals’ willingness to cooperate. In particular, I am interested in contextual factors that moderate the association of ideological orientations with the willingness to cooperate. I will report findings from a set of threestudies that indicate that the inclination to cooperate of individuals on the political right depends strongly on (a) the in- versus outgroup status of interaction partners, while this distinction is less relevant for the inclination to cooperate of individuals on the left and (b) on
the specific dimension of ideological orientation under consideration (symbolic ideology, social dominance orientation, or authoritarianism). In the studies that were conducted, cooperative behavior was measured through social value orientation (SVO) as well as behavior in asolidarity game. When no information on the group status of interaction partners was provided, social dominance orientation turned out to be the crucial ideology dimension, which
was negatively associated with inclinations to cooperate. When information on the group status of interaction partners was provided, it had a stronger impact on the inclination to cooperate of individuals who placed themselves further right (vs. left) on a left-right scale andscored high (vs. low) in authoritarianism.
Intergenerational Volunteering: Role of the Intergenerational Justice Function
Svenja Christina Schütt
In our society, people get older and for most, the active lifespan increases beyond retirement.
Elderly people can share a lot with others, due to their knowledge, life and work experiences,and their spare time. Intergenerational volunteering projects, which support the contact ofdifferent generations outside their families to keep elderly people involved in social life, arebecoming more popular. Many studies have already addressed the question of why people
volunteer: There is underlying motivational pluralism within and between people, also depending on the specific context of volunteering work (Bierhoff et al., 2007; Clary et al., 1998;
Jiranek et al., 2013). In the present research, the following specifying question is approached:
Which role do generational motives play for intergenerational volunteering compared to classical motives (Clary et al., 1998)? To this point, there is primarily qualitative data on intergenerational volunteering. Quantitative data and correlation analyses are mainly absent fromstudies in the German-speaking scientific community. The present study contributes to closing this research gap by providing a quantitative, longitudinal analysis of motives, willingness, and behavior. Answers are drawn from a dataset of more than 700 participants fromvolunteer projects and the general population. The findings of a mediation analysis confirm
that primarily generational motives, such as intergenerational contact and intergenerational
justice, play the most important role in intergenerational volunteering (R² = .41). The classic
career motive even has a negative effect on volunteering in an intergenerational context.
Limitations and implications for research and practice will be discussed.

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Social preferences and envy: Linking benign and malicious envy with social value
orientation
Dorothee Mischkowski
Situations of disadvantageous inequality often elicit envy as a negative emotional response.
To resolve it, an envious person can either strive to reach the superior status quo (benignenvy) or can maliciously seek to restore equality so that the envied person loses her superiority (malicious envy). This project elaborates on the conceptual distinction of envy by investigating how benign and malicious envy relate to social preferences. In three preregistered,incentivized online studies (N total = 1004), we (1) investigate the relation between Social
Value Orientation (SVO) as a measure of social preferences and dispositional benign andmalicious envy and (2) validate the results in a newly developed incentivized economic game,mirroring benign and malicious envy as behavioral choice options. In all three studies, wefind a negative relation between SVO and malicious envy in that increased malicious envy
goes in line with an individualistic preference. Unlike previous results, we consistently find asimilar relation between SVO and benign envy. In the envy game, dispositional malicious
envy is predictive for maliciously envious behavior; a similar tendency shows for benignly
envious behavior. Our findings contribute to the recent debate on the nature of envy. In particular, the finding that benign envy negatively relates to SVO contradicts the concern thatbenign envy might merely reflect “constructive” or socially desirable responses to inequality.
In addition, we validate an economic game as a behavioral operationalization of benign vs.
malicious envy that enables to investigate the distinction between benign and malicious envy
beyond self-report data.
The Effects of Envy in Joint Decision Making: How Feeling Envious Affects Integrative
Negotiations
Hong Zhang
Researchers from a wide range of disciplines share a consensus that envy is among the mostpowerful emotional forces in humans. The existing literature provides important insights forunderstanding envy, especially its antecedents and intrapersonal consequences (e.g., the affective and cognitive consequences of envy); but the interpersonal implications of envy insocial interactions still await more empirical scrutiny. Envy is a social experience, and it invariably occurs in dyads of the envious and the envied persons. Given the importance of envy
as a social phenomenon, the current research seeks to investigate how envy affects interpersonal interactions in joint decision-making situations. We propose that due to the painful
feelings of being envious, envy will decrease the interpersonal trust between the envious andenvied actor and ultimately harm their joint decision making. Moreover, we explored how ifthen plans (i.e., implementation intentions) can help the envious actors to increase their trustin the envy situation, and thereby mitigate the negative effects of envy in joint decision making. In general, the current research project focuses on the significant role of envy in theinteractive processes of joint decision making. Integrating the literature on negotiation andenvy, we aim to highlight whether, how, and why envy impacts negotiators’ perceptions, behaviors, and achieved outcomes. By investigating potential interventions to overcome thenegative effects of envy, we establish and validate effective tools to break through the envy
barrier and help joint decision-makers achieve optimal solutions.
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Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Communicating Justice Issues
The effect of the least advantaged people’s information on the discourse in a group
discussion
Yume Souma
Citizens in a public deliberation are expected to discuss from the perspective of common
goods that contain multiple principles, including a criterion for distributive justice. The Discourse Quality Index (DQI) was developed to evaluate whether diverse common goods wereconsidered (Steenbergen et al., 2003). Although DQI is useful, an evaluation of the entire
discussion and its outcomes by the participants is also necessary. Therefore, this study uses
multiple measures of discourse quality. This study examined the discussion of treatment of
low-contaminated removed soil outside of Fukushima prefecture, Japan. This issue required
the deliberation of multiple common goods, such as utilitarianism and the maximin principle.
Nevertheless, the maximin principle might be underestimated because the public knows little
about the least advantaged people, i. e., Fukushima residents. Given such a situation, it isworth examining the effects of information about the residents on the deliberation of the
maximin principle, using measures of discourse quality and its outcomes. We conducted agroup discussion experiment manipulating the least advantaged people’s information to explore factors affecting the discourse regarding multiple common goods. The analysis of DQI
found no significant difference between conditions regarding the maximin principle. As forthe evaluations, the participants in the informed condition weighed the maximin principle
more than those in the non-informed condition regarding the outcomes, while a significant
difference in the maximin principle was not found regarding the discourse quality. Reasonsfor the differing results based on the measurements used are discussed, suggesting the necessity of evaluation using plural measures.

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Interactional Justice in Private Communication During the Corona Pandemic
Adrian Thomas
During the Corona Pandemic, people faced various changes which also affected their privateinteractions, resulting in more potential for social conflicts (e.g., Salmon et al., 2022). Therefore, interactional justice and different ways of communication in this specific context need
to be considered in psychological research. As interactional justice has multiply been related
to social conflicts (Montada, 2012), this study investigated the relation of communication
channels, interactional justice and social conflicts in the context of the Corona pandemic.
Additionally, interactional justice as part of organizational justice, has been attempted totransfer both theoretically and empirically to the private context. The study was carried out
using an online questionnaire (N = 170). The circle of participants was restricted to people
who were living in Germany since March 2020 to guarantee a comparable impact of the pandemic on the subjects’ lives. Factor analyses indicated a two-factorial solution for interactional justice in the private context allowing a split in interpersonal and informational justice.
Both dimensions of interactional justice were negatively predicting the occurrence of social
conflicts and related to the concernment with the pandemic. Also, interactional justice wasperceived significantly higher in synchronous than asynchronous communication. Additionally, results indicated a possible moderation of the communication channel of the effect ofinteractional justice on the occurrence of social conflicts. Taken together, communicationsynchronicity affects interactional justice which is negatively related to concernment with the
pandemic and predicts the occurrence of social conflicts. Theoretical and practical implications for the promotion of interactional justice are discussed.
Art as bridge: Can aesthetic contextualization facilitate engagement with adverse
topics?
Marlene Sophie Altenmüller
War, famine, poverty – in our everyday life, such issues trigger a range of negative emotions
and we try to avoid them whenever we can. In art, however, people willingly engage with thevery same topics: They watch horror movies, listen to sad music, or visit unsettling performances. Here, we propose that aesthetic experiences are characterized by a psychologicallydistanced viewing mode that might impact engagement with negative topics at two stages:
First, we assume aesthetic contextualization (i.e., presenting something as art vs. informational) enables initial engagement with adverse topics. Second, we test whether this engagement then leads to a transformative impact reaching beyond the art experience, changing
attitudes and behaviors regarding the presented topics. In two studies (online and 360° virtual
reality), we empirically test these ideas. Based on our results, we will discuss whether art canmetaphorically build a bridge to engagement with adverse topics.

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Creating Just Campus Communities: Engaging University Students in the Developmentof Restorative Justice Practices
Chris Riley
Restorative justice attempts to move beyond retributive justice by sharing responsibility andpower in the context of conflict. Similarly, Just Community approaches to student moral development rely on principles of participatory democracy and recognize students as co-participant in decision-making processes. However, in developing and implementing on-campus
restorative justice models, universities have done little to share responsibility and power with
their students. This is especially true when addressing student conduct processes, which are
typically designed and implemented by administrators with little to no student input. As analternative to this top-down administration-center approach, this study utilizes a restorative
justice and Just Community framework to engage university students in the development of
on-campus restorative justice solutions as part of community-based learning (CBL) colloquia
course. In this community-based participatory action research project, honor students will
(1) develop an understanding of existing processes for handling student conduct violations
and restorative justice fundamentals; (2) work in small groups to consider a case study related
to one of four existing disciplinary processes – academic integrity, code of conduct, residencelife, and sexual misconduct; (3) design and participate in mock restorative justice practices
for addressing their assigned type of conduct violations. Utilizing focus groups, student participants would then present their draft restorative justice designs to relevant campus stakeholders in order to consider practical ways to improve their designs. The final researchpresentation will outline the insights gained based on students’ final designs and reflectionsof both participating students as well as faculty and administrators.

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Poster Session
Reducing non-cooperative behavior of victim-sensitive individuals throughcompensatory control
Stephan Nuding
In social dilemmas, individuals’ outcomes are not only contingent on their own actions (“actor
control”), but also on other persons’ actions (“partner control” and/or “joint control”). Sinceother persons’ actions are often unpredictable, social dilemmas necessarily involve some degree of uncertainty and, thus, imply a loss of control for each actor. This loss is particularly
aversive for actors who harbor a latent fear of being exploited, such as people with a disposition to be “victim-sensitive”. Here, we test whether affirming a sense of personal control inactors (“compensatory control”) alleviates the negative effect of victim sensitivity on trust insocial dilemmas. In two studies (n1 = 273, n2 = 336), participants played an online trust gamewith a fictitious partner. Victim sensitivity (VS) was measured via self-report scales; compensatory control was manipulated between-subjects. Affirming personal control successfully reduced the negative effect of VS on trust in Study 1, but not in Study 2. Methodological differences between the two studies may have led to the diverging effects. Future avenues forresearch on compensatory control in social dilemmas will be discussed.
Extralegal Factors Influencing Jurors’ Perceptions: Exploring the Impact of a
Defendant’s Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Socioeconomic Status
Amanda ElBassiouny
The purpose of this study was to examine how jurors’ decisions and perceptions were impacted by a defendant’s ethnicity (White Canadian / White Russian / Mexican / Chinese),
immigration status (documented / undocumented), and socioeconomic status (low / high).
Participants were asked to read the case file of a defendant that included what he was charged
with, his demographic information, and evidence from the prosecution and defense. They
were given the jury instructions that were typical in the state of California and then asked toquestions related to verdict, sentencing, and perceptions of the defendant. There were no
significant differences with the verdict and sentencing, but there were differences in the perceptions of the defendant. Participants had more positive perceptions towards the defendantfrom a low SES. The Mexican defendant from a low SES was perceived to be guiltier than theother defendants. The undocumented White Russian, rather than the White Canadian, defendant was seen as having committed a similar crime in the past. Participants were more
confident in their guilt decision when he was White Russian from a low SES. The current
research could be used as a way to train jurors on instances when the demographics of adefendant could potentially bias their perceptions about them. In addition, lawyers can also
use this type of research during the voir dire process as a way to identify and remove jurors
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Building Capacity to Understand COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions in Essential Patient
Support Personnel
Christine Skubisz
COVID-19 vaccines are free and widely available in the US. Yet, vaccination hesitancy, thereluctance or refusal to vaccinate, remains. Hesitancy is observed in population subgroups
including essential patient support personnel (EPSP). EPSP are paid employees who provide
hands-on care to patients in private or institutional healthcare settings. These workers are
critical to patient care and work in high-risk environments, but are less visible than credentialed doctors or nurses. Most EPSP are Black and Hispanic women, under age 50, with ahigh school diploma (grade 12) or less education. Foreign-born and undocumented workers
often fill these roles. Many EPSP positions lack the basic protections (e.g., healthcare benefits, unions) afforded to credentialed workers. Thus, the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines anddecision-making about vaccination represents a societal inequity. EPSP may not have theresources or time to make an informed decision about vaccination which is a social justiceissue, given the serious ramifications of not being vaccinated (i.e., no paid leave, severe disease). Therefore, it is imperative to understand hesitancy and decisions made by those who
provide healthcare support for others. This research describes the process of capacity building to carry out community-based participatory research. Involving EPSP in the research process is critical to addressing this important public health issue. The steps involved in defining
the EPSP population, identifying research partners, interviewing key stakeholders, and building a team prepared to carry out patient-centered outcomes research are described in thisformative work aimed to create equity around vaccination decisions for EPSP.
Belief in a Just World, Existential Fulfillment, and Subjective Well-Being of IT
Professionals: Before and During Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine
Iryna Kryazh & Victoria Kholmanova
Belief in a just world BJW (Lerner, 1977) and existential fulfillment EF (Längle, 2003) can beseen as personal resources to maintain psychological well-being (e.g., Dalbert, Donat, 2015;
Furnham, 2003; Mausch, Rys, 2020). It was assumed that: 1) BJW and EF are predictors of
SWB, while the relationship between BJW and SWB is mediated by existential fulfillment; 2)
wartime trials weaken personal BJW, which, in turn, negatively affects EF and SWB. The
research involved 177 respondents (86 men, 71 women) employed in IT: 80 were interviewed
in September 2021, and 77 in November 2022. Methods: The BJW Scale (Dalbert, 1999), theTest of fundamental motivation (Shumskiy, Osin, Ukolova, 2017) for measuring EF, the Sat
isfaction With Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985) — cognitive parameter of subjective well-being,
the Scale of subjective well-being (Perrudet-Badoux et al., 1988) — emotional parameter ofsubjective well-being. Significant predictors of SWB are EF and personal BJW, accountingfor 65% of the total variance for emotional discomfort and 52% for Satisfaction With Life. It
was found that personal BJW and EF indicators in 2022 are significantly lower than in 2021.
SEM (path analysis) indicated that the best fit indexes were identified for models, according
to which the decrease in the level of EF was a result of the personal BJW weakening in response to the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, the connection between personal BJW and emotional discomfort and satisfaction with life is partially mediatedby EF.
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When Principles of Fairness Change: An Experimental Investigation of Shifts Between
Relational Models
Nikolaus Fischer
Drawing on Relational Models Theory (RMT, Fiske, 1992, Rai & Fiske, 2011) and Relational
Incentives Theory (RIT, Gallus et al., 2021), we experimentally examined when people shift
the relational model (RM) they are using for relationship regulation and change their social
behavior accordingly. RMT posits that an interaction partner's behavior congruent with arecipient’s salient RM is perceived as fairer than incongruent behavior. RIT posits that incongruent behavior can trigger a shift towards the RM implied by the incongruent behavior. We
propose that the fairer an incongruent behavior is perceived by the recipient, the more likely
it is that an RM-shift occurs. Specifically, we propose that the likelihood of an RM-shift increases when the recipient a) obtains justification for the incongruent behavior and b) is predisposed to the RM implied by the incongruent behavior, because each condition increases
the recipient’s fairness perception of the incongruent behavior. For testing these hypotheses,a sample of N = 367 participants completed an online reaction-time task in a 2 x 2 x 2 (RMframing x Congruence of the interaction partner’s behavior x Justification for the behavior)factorial design plus a measured fourth factor (recipient’s predisposition). All hypotheses
could not be rejected. Results speak to a dynamic extension of RMT by incorporating theoretical propositions from RIT for predicting RM-shifts. Our study provides first empirical evidence for when principles of fairness change (i.e., RM-shift) during social interaction. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and recommendations for addressing limitations and questions for future research are given.
The Belief in a Just World and the legitimization of informal caregivers’ suffering
Isabel Correia
Informal caregivers undertake unpaid care in the intimate environment of those with limitations in their physical, mental, or cognitive functioning. Although they provide a significant
contribution to society, this group remains with a lack of social recognition. The belief in ajust world (BJW), a motivation to perceive the world as fair, has shown to have defensivefunctions for the perceivers when they face people suffering. In two online experimental studies, we aimed to examine the impact of the observers’ BJW on the perceived minimization of
informal caregivers' suffering. In Study 1 (N = 205) and in Study 2 (N = 98), participants wererandomly assigned to read one of two descriptions (female informal caregiver vs. male informal caregiver). Study 1 describes the informal care provided to an elderly spouse with dementia and Study 2 to a middle-aged spouse who became paraplegic after a car accident.
After, participants completed several measures that might impact on the perception of informal caregivers’ suffering (i.e., BJW, empathy, and burnout measures). As we expected, theresults showed a positive association between the observer’s BJW and the legitimization of
suffering of informal caregivers, over and above individual control variables (i.e., gender, age,religiosity, political orientation, years of education, be or have been informal caregiver). We
hope these two studies may contribute to better understand the mechanisms that legitimize
the lack of attention received by informal caregivers and can be the basis of interventions that
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Responses to Unfair Distributions Depending on Self-Regulation and Justice Sensitivity
in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
Carolin Ritgens
Individuals’ reactions to situations in which another person in unfairly treated depend on
many factors, such as social skills and societal norms. In addition, acting prosocially requires
effective self-regulation, because it may counter one’s own interests. Furthermore, the willingness to intervene may depend on personal characteristics capturing the individual importance of justice norms, such as justice sensitivity (JS). Acting in accordance with JS in theface of own disadvantages, however, may also require self-regulation. Thus, JS may mediate
the links between self-regulation and prosocial behavior. This study will investigate the relation between self-regulatory competencies in childhood and prosocial behavior in adolescence and the potential mediating role of JS using data from a German large-scale longitudinal study with four measurement points between 2012 and 2022 and participants between 6
and 20 years of age. Self-regulation was measured via inhibition, emotional reactivity, planning behavior, emotion regulation, working memory updating, affective decision making,flexibility, and delay of gratification. Prosocial behavior was measured via participants’ perpetrator (altruistic) punishment and victim (altruistic) compensation at their own cost in an
economic game. The data will be analyzed using latent mediation analyses. We expect higher
inhibition, planning behavior, and emotional reactivity in particular to predict more altruistic
punishment and compensation, and observer- and perpetrator JS to positively mediate thisrelation. We expect lower self-regulation to predict higher victim JS which should predict lessaltruistic actions. The findings of our study will add to the theoretical as well as practicalknowledge about prosocial behavior in adolescence.

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Tuesday, July 25
Symposia III: 10:50 am – 12:30 pm
Room „Vortragssaal“: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Teachers’ stereotypes, attitudes, and judgements depending on students’ family
backgrounds: Results of an intervention study
Anita TobischSocial and ethnic-cultural disparities of academic success prevail in German educational contexts on a high level (e.g., Reiss et al., 2019). Besides effects of primary factors, e.g.,knowledge and family resources, research showed secondary effects of origin, e.g., dissimilardecisions for secondary schooling associated with teachers’ judgements (cf. Dumont et al.,2014). Research on teachers’ judgement accuracy has shown discrepancies depending on
students’ family backgrounds. Several empirical studies found negatively biased judgements
for students with migration background or low social status (e.g., Bonefeld & Dickhäuser,
2018); others found positively biased judgements for students without migration backgroundand higher social status (e.g., Tobisch & Dresel, 2017). Explanations drawing on the Continuum Model of Impression Formation (Fiske & Neuberg, 1990) assume influences of teachers’
stereotypes on their judgements. In accordance, research indicates that teachers’ stereotypes
and attitudes towards students differ by family backgrounds and appear to influence teachers’
judgments (e.g., Glock et al., 2016). Based on theories of attitude change (revised IntergroupContact-Theory, cf. Pettigrew & Tropp, 2008; ELM, Petty & Cacioppo, 1986) and judgment
control we developed a short intervention to change stereotypes and attitudes and reduce
judgment biases. Results of an experimental within- and between-subject design (pre-postfollow-up and placebo-condition) with N=215 preservice teacher students indicate intended
effects of the intervention on stereotypes, attitudes, and judgements, expected correlationsof stereotypes and attitudes, but unexpectedly no correlations of stereotypes or attitudes withjudgements. A second study employing the same intervention on stereotypes, attitudes, andjudgements with N=101 students replicated the within-subject effects.

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Realistic Threat and Intergroup Prejudice: COVID-19 and Social Distance Preferences
Michael Platow
Throughout the COVID-19 threat, community members were advised to engage in “social
distancing” to limit disease transmission. Although intended as a form of public healthmaintenance in this instance, pursuit of social distancing has been recognized for nearly acentury as also a form of prejudice expression. In a series of studies conducted in June andJuly 2020, we demonstrate that people pursued social distancing for both health related (disease avoidance) and prejudiced reasons. For example, in one experiment, American participants expressed social distancing preferences on the basis of relevant threats, but also expressed social distancing preferences on the basis of a priori negative attitudes toward a
specific out-group. A second experiment revealed similar findings in different contexts, andusing different measures. Overall, these data demonstrate how COVID-19 threat was used tojustify negative intergroup attitudes. Beyond solely enabling the expression of prejudice, therealistic COVID-19 threat could ultimately inhibit attempts at prejudice reduction by limiting
intergroup contact. Having all the right conditions for successful prejudice-reducing contact
will ultimately be completely irrelevant if the intergroup contact fails to be initiated in the first
instance.
Preference for the ingroup, or the ones at the top? Belief- vs. status-indicative social
dimensions shape attitudes given multiple group memberships
Marie Isabelle Weißflog
Multiple group memberships like ethnicity, gender, age, etc. shape social perception andinteraction. We must acknowledge this complexity in intergroup relations. One way to support this effort is looking for similarities and differences in the ways social dimensions work.
We distinguish belief-(BI) from status-indicative (SI) dimensions, i.e. dimensions informative
for warmth/morality and competence/social status, respectively. We investigated how information about group memberships on BI and SI dimensions influences attitudes toward targets. We conducted three online factorial survey experiments in Germany, the UK, and the
US (total N = 925). Participants read target descriptions with information on nine dimensions(age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, migration background, religion, income, occupation, political attitude). We measured attitude toward targets, BI and SI for dimensions, andsocial status for all groups on each dimension. BI lead to more ingroup bias within participants across dimensions, and across participants in UK and US but not Germany. SI lead tomore status preference for some dimensions; for others it lead to less status preference instead. Across participants, there was no interaction of status preference and SI in UK and
Germany, but a positive one in the US. BI dimensions produce more ingroup bias, but SI andstatus preference have a more complex relationship that may depend on the operationalization of status, local hierarchies and norms, and individual factors.

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A Framework for Understanding the Effects of Structural Racism on Health andImplications for Policy
Amandeep Kaur
Structural racism—the totality of ways cultural communications of prejudices (i.e., cultural
racism) and discriminatory laws and policies (i.e., institutional racism) manifest and persist
across societal systems and functions—has profound health effects. Structural racism shapes
health outcomes via: 1) exposing minoritized and/or racialized groups to greater threats or
barriers, such as residential segregation, differential policing, and educational inequity; and2) limiting access to critical resources, such as economic, political, and social capital. Understanding the historical underpinnings of structural racism and their effects on health outcomes across the lifetime and over generations is critical to the development and implementation of effective policy to advance social justice. We provide a broad framework, delineating
the relations of discriminatory laws and policies to inequitable outcomes, including residential and occupational segregation, and disparities in health. Given the well-documented history of and health effects of racism on African/Black Americans, we focus on this group toprovide a detailed analysis illuminate how historical forces shaped cultural attitudes and discriminatory policies to exert widespread and lasting health effects, including COVID-19-related inequities. We review the strengths and drawbacks of existing policy initiatives to mitigate the adverse health effects of structural racism. Deconstructing these processes for African/Black Americans provides a framework for examining the complex interlocking systems
driving health inequities among other populations and identifies targets for policy to promotehealth equity.

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What Counts as Discrimination? Meritocracy Shapes the Answer
L. Taylor Phillips
Demographic attributes (e.g., age, disability, race) frequently affect people’s decisions. We
provide a novel perspective as to why such discrimination persists: Meritocratic principles
lead people to perceive some demographic attributes as fair to use, rather than as discriminatory. Specifically, we theorize that meritocracy requires that controllable and relevant inputs determine outcomes; as a result, perceived controllability and relevance affect the degree to which demographic attributes are perceived as fair to use. Moreover, we suggest
perceived relevance outweighs controllability, such that even uncontrollable attributes canbe perceived as fair criteria if perceived to be outcome relevant. In two qualitative studies,
we probed how people think about demographic attributes used in selection (Studies 1a–b).
We find that people refer to controllability and relevance dimensions to justify their perceptions. Further, people largely associate uncontrollable, irrelevant attributes with discrimination (race, sex), neglecting attributes they perceive as controllable and/or relevant (disability,
caregiving status). Next, three surveys (Studies 2a–c) support our theorizing that perceived
relevance impacts fairness perceptions more strongly than perceived controllability. In threeexperiments (Studies 3a–c), we provide causal evidence that relevance and controllability
shape perceived fairness, which in turn affects selection behaviors, including seeking information regarding demographic attributes during hiring. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates downstream consequences: Perceived controllability, relevance, and use of demographic attributes
together impact employees’ psychological safety and job satisfaction. Overall, we find thatprinciples of merit lead people to believe that even some legally protected demographic attributes are fair to use, allowing discrimination to persist.

Room „Konferenzraum“: Online Justice: Exploring the motives andconsequences of online shaming and censorship
Since nearly the inception of the internet, the internet has been used as a communication
platform by which humans attempt to enact justice. Attempts to enact justice online can encompass a wide variety of actions – from censuring speech, to sharing images and video, toposting statuses, to leaving comments, and mobilising collective action – individuals employ
a wide variety of strategies to respond to perceived violations online. This symposium examines the motivation for participation in online justice in the forms of online shaming andonline censorship, as well as the consequences for those who become its target. Arguably
this has increased since 2019. Pandemic shaming is just the most recent example in a growing list of online shaming events where individuals are called out for violating perceived
norms or values – with sometimes devastating consequences for the individuals targeted(Parr & Billingham, 2020). The symposium includes a wide range of mixed methods including
twitter topic modelling, qualitative, cross-sectional and experimental designs. Collectively
these papers speak to processes of moralization online, the importance of identity, the roleof emotions, and the dynamic interactional nature of interactions online that can give rise tothese phenomenon. Discussant: Professor Michael Wenzel.

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Why do people engage in online shaming, and who participates? A case study ofshaming and shaming backlash on Twitter
Kuni Zhao
Why do people engage in online shaming (the behaviour of calling out a perceived wrongdoer
on the internet), and who participates? We examined these questions by analysing a shaming
incident that spanned 4 days on Twitter in 2020. We collected tweets (N = 5,005) over two
periods: 1) shaming a Melbourne doctor following a breach of COVID-19 public health advice,and 2) a shaming backlash towards the Australian politician who named and shamed thedoctor. We estimated two correlated topic models for Phase 1 (9 topics) and Phase 2 (11topics), respectively. In Phase 1, we found that those who shamed the doctor expressed a
sense of group identity of being a patient, and those who shamed the politician aligned themselves with healthcare workers. Both groups demonstrated the goal of hurting the perceived
wrongdoer (the doctor/politician), and the goal of obtaining social-moral identity satisfaction(e.g., bolstering their own group identity through derogating the other group) in Phase 1. In
Phase 2, both groups showed more group-based expressions. Additionally, in Phase 2, wefound that those who shamed the politician (but not those who shamed the doctor) showed agoal of creating societal change (by calling for support from the community, and signing apetition of demanding an apology from the politician). Overall, the findings suggest thatshaming can be a response when one’s group identity is threatened - and some (but not all)types of online shaming may reflect people’s desire for social change. Theoretical and practical implications will be discussed.
A qualitative exploration of the experience and associated impacts of being shamed
onlineShannon Muir
Online shaming, where people engage in calling out perceived wrongdoings on the internet
as a means of social policing, is now a widespread and pervasive worldwide phenomenon.
While anecdotal evidence and theoretical speculation suggests the consequences of online
shaming for those subjected to it can be extensive, long lasting, and largely disproportionate,
no known empirical research on this experience has been completed to date. Guided by asocial constructionism epistemology, the current exploratory, qualitative interview study features findings from an inductive thematic analysis exploring how 22 individuals (aged 18-49)
subjected to online shaming describe their shaming experiences and various associated impacts. While there were many unique experiences across participants’ stories, the current
findings illuminate the commonalities, including: emotional reactions and thought processes
after the shaming events occurred; various ways of reacting to being shamed online; changes
to perceptions of the self, other people, and online spaces; participants struggling with howthey understood their experiences, with many describing competing beliefs and difficulties
in consolidating how exactly they felt about their online shaming events; beneficial coping
mechanisms; and some opportunities for growth that were identified as positive by-productsof being shamed online. Overall, being someone who had been shamed online was constructed as a nuanced, but largely negative experience with adverse consequences that varied
in intensity, frequency, and duration. Understanding the experiences and impacts of online
shaming is important for informing public discourse (particularly those who engage in or are
subjected to online shaming), as well as service providers, policymakers, and educators.
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Do people support censorship of those with pro-free speech stances?
Natasha Doré
There are currently many on-going societal debates about which views people should be allowed to publicly express. Some people believe others should be allowed to freely express
their views, but others believe censorship is appropriate if views are considered offensive.
We are aiming to investigate if this need for censorship extends to people with pro-freespeech stances. We will conduct a series of experiments testing the idea that people are biased to think that individuals who endorse free speech for a group agree with that groups
beliefs. This may lead to censorship in two ways: (1) people may censor free speech supporters if they believe them to also be supporting the group itself; and (2) people may choose tocensor controversial speakers if giving them a platform is inherently seen as endorsing theirviews—if they allow them to speak, then they may be seen as complicit. Furthermore, we also
aim to explore whether a number of individual differences make a person more likely to endorse censorship. For example, some people can be more ‘black and white’ in their thinking
than others: “If I disagree with someone, then their viewpoint must be bad”. It may be that
this train of thought would lead to censorship more often, compared to people who see moreshades of grey.
Motives for Online Shaming: Doing Good or Feeling Good?
Lydia Woodyatt
Public shaming has moved from the village square and is now an established online phenomenon. Online, shaming can become vitriolic, with disproportionately severe consequences for
those targeted. To date, little empirical work has explored the social and psychological processes that may underpin people’s engagement in online shaming. This research explores
whether online shaming is driven by a person’s desire to do good, that is, a justice motive;or, because it feels good, a hedonic motive, specifically, as a form of malicious pleasure atanother’s misfortune (schadenfreude). Across three experiments (N = 225, 202, 200) we presented participants with a fabricated news article featuring an instance of Islamophobia andgave them the opportunity to respond. In all three studies, participants’ concerns about social
justice had no positive direct effects on online shaming and had no indirect effect on shaming
via moral outrage. Rather, justice concerns facilitated online shaming behaviour by driving
participants’ belief that the offender in the news article was deserving of negative consequences – and through their feelings of schadenfreude regarding the person receiving thenegative consequences. Perceived anonymity did not moderate this process, however Study
3 provided evidence for norms influencing the relationship between schadenfreude and theseverity of participant’s comments.
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Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Responding to Global Crises and Societal
Challenges
A good life within planetary boundaries: Assessment of expert beliefs about (de-)
growth narratives
Sebastian Berger
Meeting human needs at sustainable levels of resource use is fundamental in achieving wellbeing for all while avoiding catastrophic climate change. A common debate centers aroundwhich economic system can best secure reaching of these twin goals. One the one hand,promoters of Green Growth suggests that continued growth of economic output is possible,
as growth can be decoupled from resource use and carbon emissions. Increasing humandevelopment via continued growth is thereby possible, without continued transgression ofplanetary boundaries. On the other hand, promoters of Degrowth suggest that a good life inplanetary boundaries requires lowering or stopping growth of multiple sectors of the economy. Arguably, continued growth is unfeasible, if not impossible, due to the historically highcorrelation of material use and economic output. In the present research, we sought to provide a systematic assessment about expert academics’ views on the issue. We have identified
a set of 30,000 academic experts, stemming from either sustainability science or economics,
who are invited to provide answers to our survey. We provide an assessment of their views
and opinions around those two growth scenarios. In addition, we measure efficacy beliefs
around various responses to climate change, including the increased use of nonviolent civil
disobedience by activist groups. We provide consensus assessments of each group, and point
to potential differences in underlying reasoning. The research may help to estimate average
beliefs on crucial transformation processes in the academic community.
Explaining Radical Climate Protest: How Unfairness Perceptions and Civil DisobedientProtest Intentions Develop Over Time
Amarins Jansma
Given the looming threat of climate change and the rapid rise of radical protest groups, someclimate protesters might be tempted to radicalize toward law-breaking and violent behavior.
Because research suggests a link between people’s perceptions of unfairness and radicalization processes (Van den Bos, 2018, 2020), this study examined the interrelationships between
these variables, focusing on three phases distinguished in climate protests: legal protests
such as peaceful marches, civil disobedient protests such as roadblocks, and violent protests
such as damaging property. During climate protests in the Netherlands, we recruited 137
people who identified with Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental protest movementthat uses non-violent civil disobedience as its core strategy. This involves law-breaking actions such as disturbing public order or disobeying authorities. Respondents completed aquestionnaire twice with 6 months in between. Our results showed that after half a year,
climate protesters were generally more willing to participate in civil disobedient actions.
Their willingness to engage in legal or violent climate actions did not change over time. Overall, we found that concerns about unfairness (perceived misbehavior by the state, social injustices, and systemic injustices) were associated with climate protesters’ willingness to protest disobediently. Our findings provide new insight into the thoughts, feelings, and behaviorsof climate protesters and suggest protesters’ level of trust in authorities is important for their
willingness to participate in different types of climate action.
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When Neoliberals become Activists: Global Crises Motivate Solidarity, but not Supportof System Change
Janine Stollberg
Neoliberalism has been shown to stand in the way of societal change to overcome social
injustice. People, who support neoliberal beliefs (i.e., who belief in a free-market philosophy
and meritocratic principles), are less motivated for collective action against social inequalityor helping the disadvantaged. At the same time, global crises, put a spotlight on injustice andharm. They can represent an existential threat to people and thus, a strong motivating force
for prosocial behavior. In three experimental studies (Ntotal = 689), we tested the predictionthat increasing people’s awareness of a global crisis (compared to a non-threatening control
condition) makes people more prosocial, even if this stands in contrast to their ideologicalbeliefs. Our results show that a salient global threat (by an economic or humanitarian crisis)increased the willingness to donate for global aid agencies, as well as did expressions ofsolidarity with Ukrainian refugees among participants high in neoliberal beliefs. These effects
were independent from effects of related but independent ideologies, such as political conservatism or social dominance orientation. However, they were limited to prosocial behavior
that did not aim at system change, such as donation intentions or solidarity, and did notextend to collective action against social inequality. We discuss implications of our findings
on how threatening information about global crisis can motivate support for different forms
of prosocial behavior, such as benevolent solidarity in contrast to activism for system change.
Correcting misperceptions of inequality in resource consumption increases support for
mitigation measures
Laila Nockur
Current levels of resource consumption are far beyond sustainable, but not everyone contributes equally to this problem: Whereas the average carbon footprint of the bottom 50% ofconsumers was only 1.6 tonnes of CO2 in 2019, the top 10% of consumers had an averagecarbon footprint of 31 tonnes of CO2, and the top 1% an average carbon footprint of 110
tonnes of CO2 (World Inequality Report, Chancel et al., 2022). In several studies we showthat US residents heavily underestimate the inequality in the distribution of consumption
within their country and worldwide. In addition, participants indicated that the distributionof carbon footprints should have been more equal both in comparison to what it was and incomparison to what they estimated it to be. Participants also underestimated the averagecarbon footprint of US residents. We present further studies on how learning about the actual
distribution of consumption within their own country or in the world influences US residents’support for carbon taxes as a means to reduce carbon footprints. In addition, we examine
how learning about the actual distribution of consumption influences intentions to reducehigh-impact behaviors like air travel or meat consumption, general motivation to mitigate
climate change, personal efficacy beliefs, as well as perceived personal responsibility. Datashows that learning about the inequality in consumption increases support for mitigation
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Program for ISJR Meeting 2023 – as of July 22'Fight The Power': The Influence of Music on Collective Action
Simon Howard
There is a century’s long history documenting music’s contributions to and relationship withliberation struggles (e.g., gospel and spirituals related to overcoming chattel slavery, theFreedom songs of the Civil Rights Movement, the soul, funk, and jazz anthems of the BlackPower Movement, and the conscious hip-hop anthems associated with the Movement forBlack Lives) by the humanities and other social sciences. Despite this history, despite thishowever, there have been no studies establshing a causal relationship between exposure tomusic and collective action. Across two experiments, we examined the influence of listening
to hip-hop on Black Americans collective action intentions. We found that listening to conscious hip-hop (but not non-conscious hip-hop) increased Black (but not White) people’s intentions to engage in collective action (Experiment 1). Using the dual-pathway model of collection action, in Experiment 2 we explored whether the effect of listening to conscious hiphop on collective action intentions was mediated by group identity, group-based anger,
and/or collective efficacy. A serial-parallel mediation revealed that the relationship was fully
mediated by group identity and group based-anger. Findings suggest that exposure to someforms of artistic expression may influence emotion focused pathways of dealing with collective disadvantage among groups who are historically disadvantaged. Future directions andlimitations discussed.

Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Justice-Related Practices and Behaviors in
Organizations
Justice Enactment as Identity Work: How Being Fair Can Reconcile Identity Tensions
and Alter Leadership Identity
Julia Zwank
Omnipresent organizational change confronts managers with multiple justice-relevant
choices involving miscellaneous competing and contradicting elements. While modern workplaces require managers to entertain multiple social identities and identity is strongly rooted
in roles, so-called “justice conundrums” increase emotional arousal and self-doubt and arethus likely to elicit identity tensions, thereby posing an identity threat. Managers who experience such incongruities are likely to engage in identity work to resolve these threats. We
present justice enactment as a behavioral response – a form of identity work – to handle such
identity threats and postulate how acts of justice enactment can serve as episodes of identification, allowing managers to resolve the ensuing incongruities. Consequently, we develop
theory as to how justice enactment allows managers to alter their role-based leadership identity and how justice conundrums specifically lead managers to strengthen and grow theirleadership identity; or how fairness considerations may at times contract or even renounce
managers’ leadership identity. In accounting for a broad range of individual responses, ourmodel elucidates when and how justice conundrums as an identity threat are likely to provoke
protection of the status quo and when they potentially open up opportunities for development
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Like leader, like follower? How exploitative leadership spills over to destructive
follower behaviors via justice violations and affective reactions
Ellen Schmid
Leadership has an important influence on employee’s behavior at work. Good leaders support, motivate, and inspire their followers through fair and appreciative behavior. However,when leaders prioritize their own goals and take credit for their team’s work (i.e., show exploitative leadership behaviors), this behavior negatively impacts their followers, who in turnshow destructive behaviors, e.g. purposefully hide knowledge. Destructive behaviors at theworkplace can thus be a negative downward spiral that causes harm to the organization, theteam and the perpetrators themselves. In order to better understand this revenge-like behavior patterns, we will examine the relationship between exploitative leadership on different
kinds of follower’s destructive behaviors in the workplace and hypothesize that exploitative
leadership leads to more destructive behaviors by followers. We expect a mediating role ofboth justice violations and negative affect and consider justice-related traits to moderate therelationship. A first empirical, cross-sectional study to test the expected relationships will be
conducted in Q1/2023. Based on power analysis, we target a sample size of N = 300. The
proposed relationships will be analyzed using R and lavaan. Results will have implications forresearch on negative spill-over effects between leader and follower and research on the emergence of justice violations at work. Practical implications for the prevention of destructive
behaviors at work will be derived. Future studies will be dedicated to the investigations ofbackward effects of exploitative leader and follower behaviors on the respective perpetrator
in the forms of subjective well-being and further acts of exploitation.
One Employee's Gain Might Be Another Employee's Pain: Equity Theory Predictions
Within and Across Employment Arrangements
Petra Klumb
More and more nurses are leaving the profession or choose temporary employment arrangements with better hourly pay. Consequently, nurses may work side-by-side and take care of
the same tasks but with different contractual terms and conditions. This heterogeneity incontracts raises questions regarding fairness that we investigated with a time-lagged survey
in which a total of 366 nurses (246 staff, 120 travel) participated. We used a three-step approach within a multi-group framework to investigate differences between arrangements.
First, treating item responses as ordered categories in a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA),a (partially) invariant measurement model of all factors was established. Second, the CFA was
expanded to a structural equation model to compare the main effects between groups. Lastly,
invariance-adjusted factor scores were used in a random-slopes model to test whether the
degree of moderation differs between groups. In line with our assumptions, staff nurses reported higher levels of inequity than temporary nurses. Inequity perceptions were negatively
related to job satisfaction and positively related to exhaustion across employment arrangements but the effects were stronger in temporary nurses. Lastly, exposure to temporary
nurses strengthened the effects of inequity on staff nurses' exhaustion but not job satisfaction. Our work demonstrates that inequity perceptions and associated strain are harmful sideeffects of contract heterogeneity. These side-effects can lead to severe disruptions in fields
where labour markets are tight, and employees are highly coveted, allowing them to leave an
unsatisfying situation for one with better conditions.
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Too close for comfort: The effect of relationship closeness and procedural justice onmanagers' experiences of layoffs
David Patient
Organizational justice is a powerful predictor of employee and survivor reactions to layoffs.
However, less is known about the perspective of the managers during layoff processes, who
often feel responsible for fairness violations. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, we argue
that managers’ perceptions of the procedural justice of layoffs influence the extent to which
they assess the task of having to lay-off people as a stressor. We argue that the closeness ofthe manager to laid off employees attenuates the positive effect of procedural justice. Consequently, we propose and test whether managers’ perception of procedural justice with which
layoffs are conducted relates to their well-being (H1), and whether this relationship is mediated by perceptions of control (H2). Manager well-being is expected to relate negatively totheir exit intentions (H3). We further propose a serial mediation whereby managers’ exit intentions after layoffs are influenced by their well-being, which in turn is influenced by theirsense of control, and ultimately by their perceptions of procedural justice (H4). Finally, we
argue that relationship quality moderates the serial mediation such that it weakens the positive effect of procedural justice on managers’ well-being through sense of control (H5). We
test our hypotheses in a field study of 144 managers in an organization undergoing change
and in a scenario study (N=302). Our results confirm the positive effects of procedural justiceduring layoffs on managerial well-being through sense of control. However, when managers
have close relationships with the affected employees, the positive effects of procedural justice
weaken.
Authentic Allyship? Feeling authentic increases allyship behavior via greater
psychological standing
Olivia Foster-Gimbel
Despite public discourse about inauthentic or “performative” allyship, research has yet to
examine how feelings of authenticity may influence allies’ behaviors. We suggest that concerns about one’s authenticity can be a barrier to allyship and propose that affirming allies’
authenticity may increase allyship at work via increased psychological standing. We test our
hypotheses across 4 studies. First, in a field survey after the murder of George Floyd, we findthat authenticity was associated with engaging in more racial justice allyship behaviors. Next,
we present two experiments which provides causal evidence that increased authenticity as
an ally can lead to greater allyship behavior in a real-world setting. Finally, we replicate andextend these results using a pre-registered experiment that simulates a workplace context.
We discuss important implications for a variety of organizations, including social movement
organizations, as well as workplaces that seek to recruit allies in their diversity and equity
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Room „Viereckhof: Heuboden“: Justice in Education
How students conceptualize justice in the school context can foster or limit their ability toflourish. Justice-oriented teachers and schools can buffer students from peer aggression andsocietal injustices and thus provide a place for youth to thrive based on their efforts. Thissymposium offers current insights into research on high school and university students’ (un)just social behavior, justice experiences and convictions, mental health, and well-being. The
first talk investigates personality factors, such as honesty-humility and learning/performancegoals in relation to students’ cheating behavior, impacting their ethical and moral development. The second talk provides data from two studies investigating the relationship between
university students’ personal belief in a just world (BJW), well-being, and justice-related behaviors. These studies considered several mediators, such as procrastination and justice experiences, and were conducted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the third talk,the author will provide the results of a study on roles in bullying incidents (e.g., offender,
victim, defender) and how these are related to school students’ perspective taking, empathy,
and BJW. Lastly, the fourth talk will present a study in which university students’ cognitive
emotion regulation strategies (e.g., refocusing, self-blaming) might mediate the relation between their personal or general BJW and subjective well-being. All told, how youth conceptualize justice in their educational contexts frames their reality and motivates their actions
during a sensitive developmental period and a volatile period in history.
The Correlation of Honesty-Humility and Learning Goals with Academic Cheating
Nina Reinhardt
Academic cheating is a problem that affects many educational institutions. It can cause severe
consequences; for example, cheating negatively affects a student’s ethical and moral standards. Non-cheaters are also affected because they may feel unfairly treated when they are
graded worse compared to academic cheaters. Recent studies frequently highlighted thatlearning goals are correlated with cheating behavior among students. In this study, we investigated whether learning goals are still a predictor of cheating behavior when controlling forstudents’ Honesty-Humility (emanated from the HEXACO model of personality) within a sample of 311 German university students. Regrading students’ learning goals, we assessed theirlearning approach, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance. Results revealed an intermediate negative and highly significant association between HonestyHumility and academic cheating. Learning goals did not explain any incremental variance inacademic cheating that goes beyond the Honesty-Humility factor. As the only exception, thework avoidance goal was found to also predict cheating behavior, but this positive association
does not seem to be as strong as the negative correlation between Honesty-Humility andacademic cheating. Result of the present study are classified into existing literature. It is discussed what can be derived from our finding to prevent cheating in the academic context;
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The relationship between university students' personal belief in a just world and theirwork attitudes during the Corona Pandemic.
Susan Münscher
Several studies have shown that personal belief in a just world (PBJW) has a positive relation
to well-being and justice-related behavior in school and university contexts. The extent towhich this relation is prevalent also during the COVID-19 pandemic is a question that will be
investigated in this study. For this purpose, two different samples of university students from
Germany (n1 = 291; n2 = 124) will be analyzed. The first study examined the direct associationof PBJW with well-being and cheating and its indirect relation via the mediators procrastination, fellow student justice, and lecture justice during the pandemic. The second study considers the association of PBJW and current COVID-19 stress experience and need for belonging according to the Self-Determination Theory. The results are consistent with previous research findings. The hypothesized direct effects of the PBJW on life satisfaction, belongingness, and current COVID stress experience could be supported by the results. Procrastination
additionally mediated the effect of PBJW on life satisfaction. PBJW predicted academic cheating only indirectly. The mediators procrastination and lecturer justice were significant here.
In summary, the results support the assumption that PBJW also acts as a resource during the
pandemic that may strengthen students’ well-being and just behavior as well as a sense of
belonging in educational settings.
Perspective-taking and belief in a just world matter: Adolescents’ role experiences inbullying processes
Anett Wolgast
Bullying is a serious problem around the world, especially among adolescents. Evidence exists that low levels of social perspective-taking as well as belief in a just world played an
important role in bullying. Both dispositions function as psychological resources that may
help students behave appropriately in social life. Previous research identified distinct bullying
roles such as perpetrator, victim, assistant, reinforcer, defender, and bystander experiences.
Although this participant-role approach has been extensively investigated in the last years, asimultaneous examination of students’ perspective-taking and belief in a just world in relation
to their experiences in these roles is still missing. This study’s objective was to examine a
differential approach of school students’ visuospatial and dispositional social perspectivetaking, emotional concern, and personal belief in a just world in relation to their experiencesin bullying roles. We tested these relations in a sample of n = 1309 adolescents (50.6% female, Mage = 13.73, SDage = 0.85) from 38 schools in Germany. The results from a latent
structural-equation model suggested that experiences as a perpetrator, assistant, reinforcer
but also as defender related to low visuospatial social perspective-taking. Emotional concern
was positively related to defender experiences. Personal belief in a just world was negatively
associated with experiences as a perpetrator and a victim. The results underline the importance of disentangling concurrent contributions of perspective-taking and belief in a justworld related to the bullying roles. We conclude that adolescents’ visuospatial social perspective taking seems to be a further mental resource against antisocial behavior in bullying.

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Cognitive emotion regulation strategies mediate the relation between belief in a justworld and subjective well-being
Matthias Donat
Research on belief in a just world (BJW) has consistently shown that people’s conviction ofliving in a just world, in which they get what they deserve and deserve what they get, waspositively related to their subjective well-being within different educational contexts (e.g.,school, university) and beyond. BJW can thus help students maintain their psychologicalhealth. Furthermore, BJW serves an assimilation function meaning that strong just-world believers cognitively assimilate unjust experiences by denying, minimizing, or reframing injustice, forgiving, or blaming the victim of injustice. However, these assimilation processes have
not yet been investigated from the perspective of emotion regulation although there seem tobe similarities between assimilation and cognitive emotion regulation. On the other hand,research has also shown that emotion regulation helps students recover or maintain wellbeing. Consequently, the aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of students’adaptive (e.g., refocusing, acceptance) and less adaptive (e.g., self-blaming, rumination) emotion regulation strategies in the relation between their BJW and well-being. We tested these
relations using data from an online survey (N = 483 students; Mage = 22.7, SDage = 4.2; 68%
female). Structural equation modelling showed that the relation between personal BJW andwell-being was significantly mediated by the emotion regulation strategy ‘refocusing’
whereas the relation between general BJW and well-being was significantly mediated by ‘selfblaming’. The adaptive role of students’ BJW regarding emotion regulation and well-being
will be discussed.
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Symposia IV: 01:30 pm – 03:10 pm
Room „Vortragssaal“: The Differing Forms of Discrimination: The Psychological
Predictors and Consequences of Discrimination-Based InjusticeWarrior (vs. Guardian) Policing Mentality Increases Support for Police Demilitarization
and Community-Friendly Policing Policies
Michael Edem Fiagbenu
Americans continue to call for police reform in response to the recurrent police use of deadly
force against civilians and particularly, minority groups. Although past studies show threat
perception influences public opinion and policy preferences, it is unclear whether perceiving
the police as threatening (vs. protective) affects attitudes towards policing reforms. The current study finds people who believe the police are generally too quick to use deadly force,
particularly against Black people, tend to support police demilitarization and communityfriendly policing training programs. Moreover, experimental manipulations that increase perceptions that the current American policing model is based on a warrior(vs.guardian) policing
mentality increases negative emotions. These emotions in turn increase support for demilitarization and better training for the police. The results highlight the emotional mechanisms
underlying support for policing reforms. Moreover, the findings imply a guardian model ofpolicing is more likely to reduce police use of deadly force and improve relationships between
the police and the general public.
The Religious Minority Tax: The Psychological and Professional Costs of Practicing
Medicine and Religion Among for Muslim American Physicians
Sohad Murrar
Workplace discrimination adversely impacts minority physicians’ career trajectories andwell-being. As healthcare systems seek to combat workplace discrimination and promote inclusion, understanding religious minority experiences is critical. Using mixed methods (national survey and qualitative interviews), we assessed how religious identity impacts workplace discrimination, accommodation, and several psychological and professional outcomesamong Muslim American physicians (n =264). We found the more important religion was toparticipants, the more discrimination they faced from patients, the more depression they reported, and the fewer religious workplace accommodations they were given. When assessing
the role of ethnicity/race, African American Muslims had higher odds of experiencing workplace discrimination, job turnover, burnout, and depression than their Arab, South Asian, andWhite peers. We supplemented these findings with qualitative interviews (n=18), whichshowed Muslim American physicians regularly faced religion-based discrimination and a lackof adequate institutional accommodations for their religious practices (e.g., time or space forprayers). Such experiences are linked to several negative outcomes, including a lower senseof belonging in academic medicine, job turnover, and abandoning religious practices. Thesephysicians also carried extra labor to uphold their religious identity in the workplace, expressed denial about experiencing discrimination, and held deep fears of discrimination. Collectively, these data point to the deleterious experiences of religious minority physicians in
U.S. healthcare systems and underscore the need for bold action in creating non-discriminatory, inclusive and equitable working environments.
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Why Does Terrorist Threat Enhance the Appeal of Conservatism? New Insights into theRole of Emotion and Boundary Conditions for Ideological Shifts
Fade Eadeh
Theorists have posited that threat makes conservatism appealing. There is support for thisidea, especially following the threat of terrorism. Yet, several major theoretical and practicalissues on this topic are unanswered. First, the breadth of these effects is unclear. Would
threat increase support for all conservative beliefs, or only threat-relevant attitudes? Second,most of these experimental effects contain no measure of affect. Although affect, especiallyfear and anxiety, has been theorized to influence political attitudes, most studies in this domain do not measure or manipulate affect. In contrast to this dominant theoretical perspective, we posit that emotions associated with injustice, particularly during acts of terrorism,
may also influence political beliefs aimed at rectifying such injustices. Across three terrorismfocused (vs. control) studies (N=1,854), two findings emerged. First, we find narrow-band
attitude change following the threat of terrorism (vs. control). Specifically, terrorist threat
influenced anti-Muslim attitudes, but did not reliably influence any other aspect of politicalconservatism (e.g., social conservatism, anti-Mexican attitudes). In addition, we found anger,a virtually overlooked emotion in this literature, played a larger role than fear, in shaping
political attitudes following threat, using both mediation and manipulate-the-mediator methodologies. Theoretically, our results provide new insight into the emotions responsible forthreat-driven political attitudes. Moreover, our findings show that terrorism-induced political
attitude change is far narrower than presumed. More practically, our work shows that threatening events can influence support for political policies and voting behavior within the UnitedStates and abroad.
Perceiving Anti-Christian Bias Increases White Christians’ Anti-LGBT Attitudes
Clara L. Wilkins
Christians in the U.S. report increasing perceptions of anti-Christian bias, but little researchhas examined the consequences of these perceptions. Three experiments provide evidence
that for White, heterosexual, cisgender Christians, perceiving anti-Christian bias causes prejudice against gay people – particularly when gay people are perceived as socially influential.
Participants primed with anti-Christian bias (vs. bias toward another outgroup) reported
lower warmth toward gay and lesbian and transgender people (E1 and E2). This effect wasstronger for Christians who saw gay people and transgender people as having significant
cultural influence in U.S. society (E2). Experiment 3 examined the causal role of influence.
Christian participants rated the qualifications of a gay applicant for an editor position thateither had influence over article content or was simply a copy editor. Participants in the antiChristian bias condition (but not in the control) rated the gay applicant as less deserving of
employment for the influential editor position than the non-influential position. Implications
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Room „Konferenzraum“: (Self-)ForgivenessDo empathic offenders feel less like “victims” when victims withhold forgiveness?
Michael Wenzel
When offenders apologize, they may feel they have done the right thing and expect the victim
to show conciliation in return. They may also feel they have lowered themselves and may
expect the victim to not exploit this and diminish the offender’s status/power further. Therefore, if a victim refuses to forgive, offenders may experience this as a norm violation andstatus/power threat, hence making them feel like a “victim”. Across four studies, using recalled and imagined transgressions in interpersonal contexts, we found evidence for this“turning tables” effect. We next reasoned that offenders’ trait empathy might reduce the effect, as an empathic offender should have greater appreciation of the hurt the transgression
would have caused the victim and of the victim’s right not to forgive. We report three studies(N = 297, 297, and 407), in which participants recalled a transgression for which they had
apologized and the victim had versus had not forgiven them. Prior to recalling the incident,
we measured participants’ trait empathic concern. Contrary to our initial reasoning, participants with higher (than lower) empathic concern more strongly perceived a non-forgiving(vs. forgiving) victim as violating norms and abusing power and, via both perceptions, felt
more like a victim. Study 3 showed why. Trait empathic concern was correlated with normative expectations of empathy that fully mediated the interaction. Thus, trait empathy can imply normative expectations that others be empathic too. Unforgiving victims may be seen toviolate or put themselves above this norm, leading high-empathy offenders to feel victimized.
The Motivation to Forgive: A Person-Centered Analysis
Tyler Okimoto
The forgiveness literature recognizes that there may be a variety of reasons why a victim
might forgive an offender, and that benefits may only follow “true” forgiveness typified byprosocial sentiment. Despite this acknowledgment, we still lack a framework for understanding and organizing the full range of motivations that may give rise to forgiveness in its different forms. In the current research, we present a novel motivational perspective on forgiveness. Drawing on self-determination theory, we developed an adapted measure of forgiveness motivation and conducted a person-centered analysis to determine predominant
motivation profiles, their antecedents, and their associated forgiveness indicators. Results
show that external pressures to forgive are associated with more controlled motivation, whichtranslates into the appearance of forgiveness but lacking in true interpersonal benevolence
that follows from more autonomous forgiveness motivation. The findings promote a differentiated understanding of forgiveness types and their antecedents.

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Culture is not one-dimensional: Chinese philosophies and their influence on selfforgivenessFeng Zhao
Self-forgiveness is understood as the overcoming of negative self-affect and working throughone's wrongdoing toward a restored moral self. However, it has primarily been studied with
Western individualist populations, and research from an Eastern collectivist-cultural perspective is missing. Yet, I posit that Eastern culture is not one homogenous perspective, but rather
comprised of several belief systems or philosophies. In Chinese culture, there are three key
traditional philosophies: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. In the present study, afterrecalling an event of wrongdoing or transgression, 198 Chinese participants completed theDifferentiated Process Scale of Self-forgiveness (Woodyatt & Wenzel, 2013) and the Three
Teachings of East Asia Inventory (Lin et al., 2021). Multiple linear regression was used to test
if Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism significantly predicted the differentiated processes:
self-punitiveness, pseudo and genuine self-forgiveness. The results showed: 1) Confucianism
and Buddhism positively predicted self-punitiveness, while Daoism negatively predicted selfpunitiveness. 2) None of the three ideologies significantly predicted pseudo self-forgiveness.
3) Confucianism and Buddhism positively predicted genuine self-forgiveness, but Daoism did
not. The results indicated that the three ideologies appear to affect the process of self-forgiveness differently. Confucianism and Buddhism appear to promote genuine self-forgiveness, while Daoism seems to facilitate the release from self-punishment. The study confirms that culture, or Chinese culture specifically, entails distinguishable philosophies, which
differently relate to self-forgiveness. It is therefore worthwhile taking the different culturalphilosophies into consideration when trying to understand self-forgiveness and its relations
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Program for ISJR Meeting 2023 – as of July 22'Working through' an interpersonal wrongdoing: a narrative approach to selfforgiveness
Christiana Harous
Following interpersonal wrongdoing, offenders experience a threat to their moral-social identity that throws into question the offender’s moral integrity and social belonging. It has beenargued that in order to resolve this threat, and move toward a state of genuine self-forgiveness, offenders are required to ‘work through’ what they have done. However, what doesit mean for offenders to ‘work through’ their wrongdoing? The answer to this question iscurrently unclear. One suggestion is that offenders may engage in a process of narration;
whereby the story of what happened is created and re-created each time it is told. Research
has shown that narration can act as a reflexive meaning making tool that consolidates thememory of an event and its associated emotion. Therefore, the current research proposesthat narration and re-narration may act as a mechanism of ‘working through’ for genuine selfforgiveness. Two exploratory longitudinal studies, using parallel latent growth modelling,
were conducted to examine (a) how offenders use narration and re-narration to work throughtheir wrongdoing, (b) what features of narration are beneficial to self-forgiveness and (c)whether offenders and observers differ in their perceptions of what narrative qualities are
beneficial, versus detrimental, to working through for genuine self-forgiveness. In Study 1 (n= 245) observers rated an offender’s narrative of one wrongdoing event over three time points
and made appraisals of the offender’s self-forgiveness state. In Study 2 (n = 140) offenders
wrote about a recent wrongdoing event over four time points, rated the characteristics oftheir narrative and reported their self-forgiveness state.

Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Justice in the Energy Transition
To mitigate climate change, a successful energy transition is crucial. In this context, energy
justice, social components and the term “just transition” received increasing research attention in the last decade. Energy justice, defined as providing all individuals - across all areas with safe, affordable and sustainable energy, is a crucial topic. For instance, due to the current energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, energy prices rise tremendously. But already before, social justice issues regarding energy have been prevalent worldwide and appear more and more on political agendas. To ensure a just energy transition thatprevents negative effects (such as energy poverty), actions that have a positive impact on
climate AND on society are required. The proposed symposium aims to highlight social justice aspects in the energy transition from different geographical angles with qualitative andquantitative data considering distributional, recognition and procedural justice. We present
research on the opportunities and barriers for a just transition regarding fossil fuels in the
UK. We outline justice dimensions in the hydrogen relationship between the Global Northand the Global South. We consider intersectionalities and diversity of energy poverty in highschool students on the Mexican-US border and show their interests to participate in energyrelated decision-making. We focus on justice of policy measures in Germany and their social
justice perception (e.g., regarding revenues of carbon pricing, the Commuting Travel Allowance). Each presentation will provide lessons-learned and research or policy recommendations to foster a just energy transition. (Moderated by Josephine Tröger)67

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Leaving colonial, carbon-locked pathways in the rearview mirror? (G)local patterns of(in)justice in Germany's hydrogen partnerships with Namibia and South Africa
Anne Kantel
Hydrogen energy, in particular green hydrogen, is increasingly regarded as an importantenergy carrier in Germany's transition strategy towards de-carbonizing high-energy-intensive industries. However, since in Germany the potential of renewable energy to produce
green hydrogen is limited, policymakers are looking to establish international partnerships
to produce green hydrogen outside of Germany and subsequently import it for national use with a particular focus on partnerships with countries in the Global South. Resource extraction from the Global South for use by populations and industries in the Global North is nothing
new and often deeply rooted in colonial hierarchies of power. Extracting and using energy
from renewable resources to produce and subsequently export green hydrogen might differ
from extracting natural gas or oil and offer an opportunity to leave behind carbon-locked
pathways and unequal international relationships. However, nothing suggests that the current mode of partnership between the Global South and the Global North will change automatically when it comes to hydrogen production and export as the topic of energy justice ina (global) hydrogen economy remains analytically and empirically understudied. Based on a
document analysis of available policies, reports and peer-reviewed articles as well as 10 expert interviews with stakeholders in the Global South, this paper explores two cases of potential hydrogen partnerships between Germany and Namibia and Germany and South Africa
to illustrate narratives of perceived (local and global) benefits and risks in light of differenthydrogen justice dimension. It concludes with lessons-learned for future research on hydrogen justice.

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Towards climate-proof and fair fiscal policies: A multi-factorial survey experiment on
tax benefits for commuters
Adrian Rinscheid
Research shows that citizens in democracies tend to prefer both a more equal income distribution and stronger environmental protection. Despite this, some existing public policies foster economic inequalities and create incentives for environmentally harmful behavior at thesame time. Are citizens aware of these effects? Do they perceive such policies to be fair? And,
if not, how would policies need to be designed to match citizens’ conceptions of fairness? To
address these questions, we investigate popular attitudes regarding the German Commuting
Travel Allowance (CTA; Entfernungspauschale in German), a transport-related tax deduction
scheme. The CTA is an example of a policy that entails income redistribution to the top andincentives for environmentally harmful behavior. The policy frequently appears high on thepolitical agenda, not least in the context of the ongoing energy crisis. Yet, it has proven remarkably robust in the past. Using a survey-embedded vignette experiment with n = 4,500
German residents fielded in August 2022, we decompose the policy into 6 policy design elements and investigate to what extent they affect citizens’ perceptions of fairness. Our analysis
indicates that the current policy design, which mostly benefits affluent drivers, does notmatch conceptions of fairness held by the public. Based on these results and an additional
information treatment administered after the vignette experiment, we derive recommendations for a reform of the policy. Moreover, we formulate broader implications for research on
the role of fairness perceptions in the context of intersecting (socio-economic and ecological)
crises.
“It’s not just white men in hardhats”: Opportunities and barriers for a Just Transition
away from oil and gas in the UK
Kirsten Jenkins
The latest climate science clearly presents the need for a transition away from further oil andgas exploration. In May 2021, the International Energy Agency’s net zero 2050 roadmap
highlighted that Paris-aligned decarbonisation does not allow for investment in new oil andgas fields. In the UK, the oil and gas industry contribute substantially to the economy; they
are also a large and politically divisive contributor to the climate crisis that is failing decarbonisation and emissions targets. Where previous UK industrial transitions - including thatfrom coal - have been widely criti-cised, the low-carbon transition away from oil and gas
requires a new approach, one that might achieve profitability be achieved through a “JustTransitions” focus. Based on a desk-based documentary review, 25 expert interviews withstakeholders from across the oil and gas sector, and a scenario planning exercise, this paper
explores the opportunities and barriers for a Just Transition away from oil and gas in the UK.
It discusses the precari-ousness of work, the incumbent dominance of the oil and gas industry, the technological readiness of future technologies and differential policy ambitions acrossthe devolved na-tions. The paper concludes with lessons for the UK, wider policy contexts
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Program for ISJR Meeting 2023 – as of July 22(No) Options to change: Social justice perceptions of carbon pricing and its revenue use
Sabine Preuß
In 2021, the German government introduced carbon pricing for fossil fuels, aiming for moreclimate-friendly behaviour and less emissions. Recent research shows that the acceptance ofan environmental policy is impacted by its social justice and fairness. Distributional effects
and related justice perceptions are at play: For instance, people with lower income have less
opportunities to make investments to decrease their carbon footprint or to cover related costs(than others). To avoid discrimination of certain societal groups, the revenue uses of the carbon price present a relevant tool. Thus, this research focuses on the justice perception andacceptance of carbon pricing and its revenue use in different societal groups. Specifically, we
examined two groups who are particularly burdened by the introduction of carbon pricing(elderly persons with large living spaces; families with long commutes) and two groups withlower income (recipients of social welfare; single parents). We conducted 12 fully transcribedfocus groups with a total of 83 participants. For the content analysis, we applied the constructs acceptance, perceived justice, perceived costs/benefits and perceived policy effectiveness. Similar to a mix-method design, we added a quantitative survey. During the discussion,different justice perceptions were identified (e.g., the polluter-pays or the accountability principle) and we explored differences between groups in these perceptions. The presentation
concludes with lessons learned for the design of environmental policies and the revenue useof carbon pricing for a just transition.
Applying intersectionality theory to understand social inclusion in regional energy
transitions
Amanda Martinez Reyes
Social inclusion in the energy transition is difficult to operationalize because citizen groups
face energy struggles differently, and have different willingness to participate. We conducteda study to identify citizen groups that are commonly vulnerable in the energy system by applying intersectionality theory. We draw the results from stakeholder interviews (n = 21), a
survey (n = 691) and follow-up workshops (n = 90) conducted with public high school students
and their families in the cross-border region Tijuana-San Diego. Results show citizen groups
who face different types of energy poverty and have the different interests in decision-making. Some groups want to become community leaders in the energy transition despite thecloseness of the decision-making process. Findings contribute to stakeholder management
theory by describing alternative stakeholder roles and to socio-technical transitions theory
by describing the emergence of transition agents. Policies for targeted social inclusion arerecommended.

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Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Organizational Justice
The Roles of Justice, Value Congruence, and Resources in Legitimation
Karen Hegtvedt
The legitimacy of organizational authorities helps to ensure the productivity of workgroups.
Previous empirical work illustrates how various forms of justice, separately or along withresources, contribute to workers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of an authority. To date, however, few studies have empirically assessed the integrative model of legitimacy judgments
offered by Tost (2011). This model highlights the role of relational, moral, and instrumental
perceptions of an authority in the workplace along with consideration of “validity cues” (i.e.,
what others think) in legitimacy processes. Here we examine the relative impact of such factors: procedural and interactional justice to denote relational elements; value congruence
between worker and authority to capture moral concerns; the authority’s use of power benevolently by providing resources to ensure quality job performance as an instrumental antecedent; and worker’s perceptions of what their coworkers and their upper administrators
think of their authority (i.e., endorsement and authorization, respectively). A survey of employed adults (N= 1903), representing a cross-section of the demographics of the U.S., provided data to examine the role of these factors in legitimation. Results reveal the significant
effects of relational, moral, and instrumental factors as well as the validity cue of what coworkers think (but not what upper management thinks). More specifically, interactional justicematters more than procedural justice, and benevolent power use and endorsement mattermost. Discussion focuses on the implications of the relative impact of these antecedents inshaping legitimacy of authorities, especially for those from historically marginalized groups
who face challenges in the workplace.
The impact of organizational justice and feelings on perceived trust ininterorganizational collaborations
Martina Grunenberg
In interorganizational collaborations, reciprocal trust between involved members of the organizations is essential (Delbufalo, 2012). Following this assumption, this study examined
the relation of perceived trustworthiness of collaborative partners with informational justiceand feelings, as well as the influence of organizational justice on the development and loss oftrust in collaborative relationships. We surveyed organizational members who cooperated
with two German Higher Education Institutes as part of a joint project promoting knowledgetransfer. A mixed-methods approach was used. First, a longitudinal questionnaire study was
carried out to examine the long-term effects of informational justice on feelings and trustworthiness (N1 = 53, N2 = 75). Afterwards, cooperation partners were interviewed in a qualitative study to investigate the relevance of organizational justice dimensions for promoting
and losing trust (N = 12). Results show that the perception of informational justice at the
beginning of the project correlated with perceived trustworthiness two and a half years later.
However, the influence of informational justice on perceived trustworthiness was mediatedby positively experienced feelings. The contribution of further organizational justice dimensions for trust development and loss in cooperative relationships was supported by qualitative
data. This study offers an empirically based framework for trust in interorganizational collaborations. Practical implications regarding the design of collaborations between different organizations as well as implications for future research on justice and trust can be derived.
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Procedural justice and affect during organizational change at higher education
institutes – a longitudinal study of employee support for change
Judith Prantl
Increasingly, current multiple societal, economic, ecological and health crises call for higher
education institutes to open up to society and provide answers to the big questions of ourtime. To ensure that this process at higher education institutes succeeds, employees need to
be willing to support such change. We argue that organizational justice can make a considerable difference and encourage staff to support the process. To this end, we transferred amodel from justice research to the context of change at higher education institutes and measured the model at two higher education institutes endeavouring to open up towards society.
Both informational and procedural justice were seen to correlate with the trustworthiness ofthe management as well as the affect experienced. However, only procedural justice is relevant for employee willingness to support the change. Procedural justice as well as experienced positive affect predict willingness to support the change. The study reveals a close link
between organizational justice and affect, and thus strengthens calls for a stronger integration of these two research lenses. In addition, the results highlight the significant relevanceof justice dimensions for change at higher education institutes, leading to greater societal
engagement.
How zero-tolerance backfires: The effects of disclaiming “Just joking” excuses fordiscriminatory jokes at the workplace
Laetitia Mulder
To counter harassment and discrimination at the workplace, organizations may consider todraw up a “No ‘just joking’ policy” (NJJ). Such policy has been implemented at Facebook andstates that saying “I was just joking” is not accepted as defense to allegations of harassment.
What are the psychological effects of implementing such a policy that seems rather intolerant
to any type of (intended or unintended) discriminatory remark? We study this in four scenario
studies in which we manipulate the presence of (the various aspects of) a NJJ, and measurereactance, policy support, disapproval of discriminatory jokes, and intentions to intervene
when discriminatory jokes are made. Our data shows that a NJJ is supported less and evokes
more affective and behavioral reactance than a policy that merely states that harassment anddiscrimination are not tolerated. Also, the NJJ policy was less successful in evoking disapproval of discriminatory jokes, and sometimes even reduced it. These effects were explainedby perceptions of institutional intrusion. The NJJ policy did not affect the extent to whichpeople intervened after a discriminatory joke, although, when in a leadership role, the presence of a policy (but not a NJJ policy in particular) did increase intervention intentions. We
conclude that anti-harassment policies can help to create a culture in which discriminatory
jokes are tolerated less, but that a far-reaching policy that is unforgiving of people making
jokes that are unintendedly discriminatory, does not add much or can even backfire.

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True-blue students: Organizational justice, academic identification, and legitimacy ofacademic authorities as antecedents of students’ loyalty to their university
Michał Główczewski
Customer loyalty is one of the key challenges of every business organization. The vast literature on higher education institutions shows that students can be perceived as customers of
their universities. Universities continue to be important brokers of prestige and careers inmodern societies, and it is essential to better understand how they can win the loyalty of theirstudents and staff in a world increasingly requiring mobility and change. In three studies (N= 1,279) and using two national samples (Polish and American), I investigated the antecedents of students’ loyalty to their university. In Study 1 (N = 257, Polish sample), students’
perceived organizational justice of their university was a positive predictor of their loyalty totheir university. In Study 2 (N = 522, Polish sample), I replicated those findings and observedthat academic identification accounted for the relationship between the university’s organizational justice and the students’ loyalty to the university. In Study 3 (N = 500, American
sample), I replicated the findings in Study 1 and Study 2 and tested another mediator of theinvestigated relationship—the perceived legitimacy of the university and its authorities. I concluded that the positive experience of organizational justice at a university translates into
stronger academic identification and stronger perceived university legitimacy, both of whichlead to stronger loyalty to one’s university. While universities across the world experimentwith more debatable strategies for building academic loyalty, such as advertising campaigns,
this research demonstrated that organizational justice remains an important strategy for
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Wednesday, July 26
Symposia V: 09:00 am – 10:20 am
Room „Vortragssaal“: Dealing With Transgressions
Sympathy for the Devil: People Prefer Transgression Explanations that Elicit
Compassion Over Those that Support Unmitigated Outrage
Michael Gill
When we first learn about a moral transgression, hostile blame-related emotions arise immediately: I am outraged! Often, however, one subsequently acquires additional information that
explains in greater detail why the transgressor acted as he did. These transgression explanations can either support or mitigate one’s initial hostility. In this talk, we will examine thequestion: Which type of transgression explanation—blame-supporting or blame-mitigating—will people find more satisfying? Alternatively, which will leave them feeling dissatisfied,wishing they had received a different sort of explanation? Of relevance to this question, influential theorizing suggests that people are motivated to sustain high levels of blame toward
moral transgressors, going so far as to engage in motivated cognition to distort blameworthiness judgments in an upward direction. We propose an alternative, suggesting that people
find the experience of compassion toward transgressors particularly satisfying. We pit these
two ideas against one another in three experiments. These experiments show that, following
exposure to both heinous and everyday transgressions, people find blame-mitigating explanations more satisfying than blame-supporting explanations. We show that this increased
satisfaction is mediated by the compassion elicited by mitigating explanations. Finally, weshow that, in the case of heinous violations, the link between compassion and explanationrelated satisfaction is stronger among those with a strong moral identity. This suggests thatblame-mitigating explanations are satisfying because they facilitate one’s ability to feel like amoral person. These results provide a novel perspective on the motives underlying moral
judgments of transgressors.
Re-humanization: How perceived remorse buffers against perceptual dehumanization of
offendersFriederike Funk
I will present studies that examine how the presence or absence of remorse modulates perceptual dehumanization of offenders. Using an adapted version of Fincher & Tetlock’s (2016)
Face Inversion Task for offenders, we examined if remorseful offenders are perceptually rehumanized. First findings from a preregistered lab study confirmed our hypothesis (indicating a larger accuracy difference between upright and inverted faces for remorseful offenders), but several online studies with samples from English- and Chinese-speaking populations
showed a different, yet consistent picture: Remorse seemed to "re-humanize" upright as wellas inverted remorseful offender faces, indicated by higher accuracy rates overall. Lastly, I will
present data on explicit humanization measures that also favor a re-humanization account for
remorseful offenders, discuss potential meanings of these findings, and summarize what wedo and do not know about perceptual dehumanization and potential re-humanization and/or
individuation processes in this context.
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Did You Mean to Do That? Examining the Roles of Fair Treatment, Legitimacy of
Perpetrator, and Attributions on Responses to Distributive Injustice
Heather L. Scheuerman
How individuals perceive and respond to an injustice depends on the social context. Althoughscholars have theoretically addressed how information from others in the situation can affectjustice processes, little empirical research attests to the relationships between how individuals make sense of a distributive injustice when also attending to other justice and legitimacy
concerns. I investigate whether the presence of other types of injustice (procedural and interactional) and the legitimacy of the perpetrator of injustice affects attributions of intentionality, and how these attributions may moderate the effect of these situational conditions onemotional and behavioral responses to an unfair allocation. A randomized vignette survey
was distributed to a sample of undergraduates. Results reveal that, depending upon various
types of situational information, attributions of intent for the receipt of a distributive injusticemoderate emotional and behavioral responses to injustice.
Hazardous machinery: perceived agency and blameworthiness of harm-doing
autonomous robots
Rael Dawtry
Autonomous machines, such as robots, can increasingly perform functions that are potentially hazardous to people (e.g., autonomous vehicles, surgical robots, military robots). This
raises questions regarding moral and legal responsibility - how do people assign blame forharms caused by robots’ autonomous actions? We investigated whether, insofar as people
assign human-like agency to robots, they may in turn blame robots themselves. In Studies 1aand 1b, people assigned greater agency to machines described as ‘autonomous robots’ thanas ‘machines’, and blamed robots more strongly, if less so than humans, for the same accidents. The effect on blame was mediated via agency, such that people assigned higher agency
to robots (vs. machines), and in turn, blamed them more. Study 2 replicated these findings
with a broader range of machines and settings. Study 3 directly manipulated perceptions ofa military robot’s agency via the apparent sophistication of its autonomous capabilities. People assigned the more (vs. less) sophisticated robot greater agency, and in turn blamed it
more. These findings show that, although people blame robots less than humans, they doblame them in comparison to non-autonomous machines, and do so because they imbue themwith human-like agency not typically ascribed to non-autonomous machines. This tendency
is robust across different settings and types of robot. Taken together, the findings suggestthat laypersons conceptualise machine autonomy vis-a-vis human-like agency, and consequently, do consider autonomous machines themselves to be blameworthy moral agents tosome degree.

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Room „Konferenzraum“: Antecedents and Consequences of Social Mobility
Explaining People’s Social Mobility Beliefs
Martin Day
Stronger beliefs in social mobility (i.e., social class change) seem to play a role in maintaining
high economic inequality. But why do some people staunchly believe in social mobility? This
question is complicated by disciplines examining different social mobility beliefs. For example, some researchers focus on beliefs about personal experienced mobility (e.g., past social
class change compared to parents), whereas others focus on beliefs about personal or societal
expected mobility (e.g., likelihood for self, or bottom 20%, to move up). How comparable arethese mobility beliefs and the research conclusions based on them (e.g., regarding inequality)? To provide some insight into the above questions, we conducted a preregistered national
study of U.S. residents (n = 1423) to examine which of several psychological factors, if any,uniquely explained three social mobility beliefs (personal experienced, personal expected,
societal expected). Factors included mobility TV watching, self-esteem, subjective SES, political orientation, personal relative deprivation, as well as demographics (e.g., age). Regression results indicated a unique pattern of predictors for each social mobility belief. People’s
stronger beliefs about personal experienced mobility were moderately explained by higher
subjective SES, and modestly by frequent mobility TV watching and higher household income. However, stronger beliefs about personal and societal expected mobility were moderately explained by higher self-esteem, and modestly by frequent mobility TV watching, higher
subjective SES and stronger political conservatism. Moreover, younger age modestly explained stronger personal (but not societal) expected mobility beliefs. We discuss the comparability of social mobility beliefs, including implications for inequality research.

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Educational Inequality: Anticipated Cultural Fit and Social Disparities in Students’Intention to Enter Higher Education
Johannes Stark
Most Western societies promote the meritocracy principle in their educational systems: Educational attainment should be a function of students’ abilities and efforts, not the luck ofbeing well-born. However, despite political and societal efforts to reduce social inequalities
in education, research consistently shows that individuals from non-academic households (noparent holds a degree in higher education) are less likely to enter higher education than theirpeers from academic households (at least one parent graduated from higher education).
Drawing on cultural mismatch theory, we test whether social disparities in students’ intention
to enter higher education can be explained by their anticipated cultural fit. Specifically, it has
been theorized that growing up in non-academic household, where opportunities for choice,control, and influence are limited due to economic and environmental constraints, individuals
internalize a culture of interdependence which, we hypothesize, does not correspond with an
expected predominant culture of independence at HE institutions. Data (N = 574; 41% from
non-academic households) from upper secondary school students show that students from
non-academic households anticipated a weaker cultural fit, and, in turn, reported a lower
intention to enter higher education than students from academic households. This anticipatedmisfit was more pronounced the more students expected a culture of independence in higher
education. Results suggest how students from non-academic households may be discouraged
from entering higher education, despite being qualified, exacerbating social inequalities in
educational attainment.
Socioeconomic status, relative deprivation, interpersonal hostility, and the moderating
impact of mobility beliefs
Tobias Greitemeyer
Most modern societies have high income and wealth inequality among their residents. Being
disadvantaged and perceiving this situation as unfair, in turn, is at the heart of the experienceof personal relative disadvantage. The present talk gives an overview of recent research into
the relationship between socioeconomic status, relative deprivation, and interpersonal hostility. Causal evidence is presented that the perception of low socioeconomic status leads tothe experience of personal relative deprivation, which increases feelings of hostility, whichthen results in increased aggressive behavior. A longitudinal study shows that personal relative deprivation has long-lasting effects on aggression. Finally, studies are presented thatsocial mobility beliefs—the extent to which an individual believes she/he can move up or
down the socioeconomic ladder—function as a mitigator for hostility resulting from personal
relative deprivation. In fact, low social status is associated with hostility, but only when thecurrent predicament is perceived as immobile. Policy changes that reduce the experience of
disadvantage, either directly by reducing inequality or indirectly by increasing social mobility, would be welcome.

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The influence of experienced and expected social mobility on the justice evaluations ofincome inequality
Jule Adriaans
While extensive evidence shows that people’s current status is pivotal for evaluations of income inequality, current scholarship highlights the role of mobility experiences and expectations on related outcomes such as redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, how experiences and expectations of social mobility influence justice evaluations of income inequality
remains an unsolved puzzle. Theories on self-interested motivations claim that upward experiences should be related to evaluating income inequality as more just and downward experiences to evaluations tending in the direction of injustice. Positive expectations about future
status, suggesting a belief in a society that allows climbing up the social ladder, should translate into more positive evaluations of the current distribution. This article tests both perspectives—experienced and expected mobility—comparing the relative contribution of each perspective in explaining justice of income inequality. To investigate the influence of subjective
social mobility on the evaluation of income inequality, we draw on the most recent ISSP social
inequality module (2019-2021), covering 29 countries. We focus on the justice evaluation of
the income distribution and the subjective social status at three points in time: (1) family’ssocial status growing up, (2) own current social status, (3) anticipated own social status in 10
years. By comparing perceptions of past and future status to the perceived current status, we
identify experiences and expectations of social mobility. Preliminary results corroborate thatchanges in experiences and expectations of social status affect the justice evaluation of theincome distribution.

Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Belief in a Just World
Effort- and valence-based just world beliefs: conceptualization, measurement andvalidation
Yuan Cheng
We propose that one's belief in a just world (BJW) can be divided into two distinct dimensions: one addressing the notion that efforts are rewarded, i.e., effort-based BJW, and anothermaintaining that the valence associated with moral character leads to particular consequences, i.e., valence-based BJW (e.g., good people are rewarded and bad people are punished). We used culturally relevant proverbs to design measurements in German and Chinese.
Samples of college students and working adults from both countries were collected to assess
the reliability, factor structure, validity, and nomological consistency of the newly developed
effor- and valence-based measures. Both measures demonstrated strong evidence of the existence of and distinction between effort- and valence-based BJW, and they displayed uniquepatterns in predicting different variables beyond the effect of personal BJW and BJW for others, which may elucidate the precise justice beliefs that related to different psychologicalphenomena.

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Beliefs about Justice for Self and Others: Links to Healthcare Evaluations among
African Americans
Todd Lucas
Beliefs about justice for self and others are correlated, but unique facets of the belief in justice. Although the belief in justice for self has been especially connected to enhanced personal well-being, recent research illuminates the potential for cultural variability and nuancein this link. Across three studies, we expand on recent efforts to consider how simultaneous
endorsement and non-endorsement of the belief in justice for self and others can affect African Americans' evaluations of receiving healthcare. In study 1, African Americans' belief injustice for self was associated with reduced feelings of discrimination when receiving
healthcare, but only when the belief in justice for others was low. In study 2, this interactive
pattern was replicated on an alternate measure of perceived healthcare discrimination. Additionally, whereas the belief in justice for self predicted stronger healthcare power beliefs(perceived healthcare control), beliefs about justice for others predicted greater trust in thehealthcare system. In study 3, we parsed African Americans' beliefs about justice for other
African Americans from beliefs about justice for White Americans. A stronger belief in justicefor other African Americans was linked to more positive views of healthcare, whereas beliefs
about justice for White Americans were unrelated. We also found that life satisfaction waslowest among African Americans when a weak belief in justice for self was coupled with astrong belief in justice for other African Americans. Taken together, results support the
emerging perspective that justice beliefs may be associated with health and well-being incomplex ways among members of minority groups.

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Lost and Found: The Role of Justice Motives in Real World Problems
Rune Miram
Psychological discourse on justice motives is all too often based on low-impact situations
such as experimental role-plays or fictional scenarios (Lerner, 2003). Therefore, the transferof these findings to current socio-political issues is naturally limited. In this interdisciplinary
study, we combine the perspectives of political sociology with questions of psychologicaljustice research. In a large-scale survey representative for the German population throughSinus-Milieus segmentation, we assessed attitudinal patterns towards socio-political issues
or “cleavages” (Lipset & Rokkan, 1967). Following Lux et al. (2021), we structure currently
salient, constant political issues along four axes of inequality: (1) top-bottom inequalities(economic resource distributions), (2) inside-outside inequalities (territorial access, migration, and membership), (3) us-them inequalities (social recognition of diversity), and (4) today-tomorrow inequalities (intergenerational equity and environmental sustainability). To
capture a broad base of psychological concepts regarding justice, we added parts of the Just
World Inventory (Schmitt & Maes, 2001), which distinguishes between the spheres of justicein the world and in one's own life. Each sphere contains aspects of the perception of (in)justice, the desire for and possibility of justice as well as self-ascribed competence and personal responsibility to contribute to justice. The results demonstrate substantial systematicconnections between attitudes towards current political issues and psychological attitudes
regarding justice. Through a milieu-specific analysis of attitude patterns, we also inspect the
influence of justice motives on opinion polarization in the population. This conference paper
thus underlines the importance of justice motives in the context of concrete social issues aswell as interdisciplinary justice research.

Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Economic Inequality
Taking the Justice Pulse: Inferring Justice from Inequality
Guillermina Jasso
Since antiquity it has been thought that justice concerns play an important part in many
choices and decisions – e.g., to sign a petition or participate in a demonstration; to vote; tojoin an uprising or fight a war; to leave a country -- and that justice concerns are linked toinequality. This paper combines those two ideas to develop a way to take the justice pulse ofa society and thus monitor individual propensities and societal health. The world’s countries
differ greatly in taking the justice pulse. Some have never taken it. Moreover, survey-based
data limitations may be easier to correct in income data. The proposed procedure takes advantage of (1) algebraic links between inequality and justice and (2) the new high-quality
World Inequality Lab income data (Piketty-Saez-Zucman 2018) combining survey/tax/national-accounts information. The procedure is applicable to two cases – when the individualcompares own actual reward to equality (as during national celebrations or sports events),
producing justice evaluations where the just reward is the arithmetic mean, and when theindividual compares own actual reward to the actual reward of every other person in thesociety, producing justice evaluations in which the just reward is the geometric mean. Thus,J = ln[X/E(X)] and J = ln[X/G(X)]. Then E(J) = ln{[G(X)]/[E(X)]} in the first case (exactly linked
to Atkinson Inequality and Theil MLD) and E(J) = 0 in the second. We also use the income
data to estimate other parameters of the J distribution, providing a fuller picture of the justicepulse.
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Allocating resources to multiple societal goals: The case of wealth inequalities
Simone Sebben
We are interested in how people would allocate efforts and resources to changing social inequalities and whether their allocations are in line with the changes they desire, using wealthinequalities as an example. Because the resources strictly required to realize a change are
directly proportional to its size, change-proportional allocations offer a neutral starting point.
We distinguish between fundamental inequalities (i.e., inequalities that depend on nothing
but the distribution of the target resource) and non-fundamental inequalities (e.g., the wealthinequality between men and women). Using public opinion data from Switzerland (N Study
1 = 979, N Study 2 = 994), we found that modal preferences for the allocation of efforts andresources to changes in fundamental and gender inequality were mostly independent of thechanges people individually desired. Many would even have allocated resources to something
they explicitly did not care about. To discuss how people’s preferences for resource allocations can be explained or maybe even rationally justified, we relate the results to principles
of distributive justice and highlight the possibility of important biases underlying democratic
deliberation about the management of social inequalities.
Evaluations of economic inequalities in Europe: Profiles of (in)justice of income andwealthCristóbal Moya
European societies have been experiencing growing income and wealth inequalities over the
past few decades. Distributive justice theory argues that subjective justice evaluations ofthese inequalities are a key element that connects economic inequality to its social consequences. In studying justice accounts of inequality, past research has mostly focused on singular evaluations and has therefore failed to take the multi-dimensionality of justice into account. Individuals form evaluations about their own situation, about others and about various
components of economic inequality. We argue that in order to capture a comprehensive senseof justice about economic inequality, a variety of evaluations should be jointly accounted for.
To close this gap, we rely on survey data from the European Social Survey (2018/2019) withmultiple justice evaluations of income and wealth. Using latent class analysis, we identify fourtypes of justice profiles among the active working population in Europe: critics, altruists, thedeprived, and status-quo supporters. These groups differ regarding both if and where theyevaluate injustice in income and wealth. Most respondents are either critics, who perceive
injustice in all dimensions, or altruists, who assess their own situation as just but the societal
income and wealth differences as unjust. Our results also show that the profiles map wellwith previous scholarship on distributive justice, as profile membership is systematically related to both the social and ideological position of workers in Europe.

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When do we prefer more redistribution? Studying the Effects of Income Inequality andrelated Social Policies on Preference Formation Processes
Simone Maria Schneider
The rise of economic inequality observed in countries around the globe is causing societal
and political concern, triggering public and academic debates on the consequences for societal welfare and social cohesion and fostering political discussions of the role of government
intervention, the state’s inability to intervene, and the legitimacy of social policies. In thecontext of the Covid-19 pandemic, these debates have taken on new significance. This study
investigates how income inequalities and related social policies shape individual preferences
for redistribution. To address the problem of endogeneity in public opinion research, it examines preferences for redistribution by the foreign born, i.e. those not socialized in the system they are asked to evaluate. It (a) explores the degree to which preferences depend on the
country’s level of inequality and related governmental efforts for redistribution; (b) stresses
the importance of referential standards and the significance of previous experiences in the
country of origin; and (c) investigates changes in preferences with the length of time spentin the destination country. The study uses data from the ten rounds of the European Social
Survey (2002-2020), and applies multilevel modelling techniques. Findings suggest
knowledge and experience of different economic and institutional settings changes the perspective on the government’s role for redistribution. They also enrich the discussion on theeffects of institutionalisation and adaptation processes on public opinion and preference formation processes.

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Room „Heuboden“: (Dis-)Trust in Authorities
Cross-country Differences in the Impact of Organized Criminal Groups Moderate theRelationship between Individuals’ Political Trust and the Endorsement of Standards of
Civic Honesty
Giovanni Travaglino
Individuals' endorsement of standards of civic honesty allows democracies to flourish. A critical driver of civic honesty is the extent to which individuals trust their political and legal
authorities. Political trust sustains the social contract, which leads citizens to perform theircivic duty in exchange for good administration. Little psychological research has examined
how contextual factors might undermine this contract. In the present study, we assessed thesocietal impact of organized criminal groups. By virtue of being “organized”, these groups
have the distinctive capacity to corrode the reliability of institutions' moral standards, subverting their mandate. Employing a new indicator that quantifies their impact across countries, we tested the hypothesis that the association between political trust and civic honesty
would weaken as criminal groups’ impact intensified. Results from a multilevel model across
83 representative national samples (N = 128,839) supported the hypothesis. The findings revealed that the association was positive in countries where criminal groups’ influence waslower, whilst it became non-significant where criminal groups’ influence was stronger. Notably, in countries where the impact of criminal groups was more extreme, the association
between political trust and the endorsement of civic honesty was significant but negative.
Individuals who expressed confidence in institutions impacted by organized criminal groups
were more likely to reject standards of morality in the civic context. Implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed: organized criminal groups affect society
beyond security and the economy. More research is needed to address the psychologicalimplications of their presence.

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Why do people support disruptive collective action? On the role of police procedural
injustice
Monica M. Gerber
During the last years, the world has seen an increase in violent collective action, hand in handwith strong police repression. Why do people support such disruptive forms of collective action? This paper proposes a dialogue between theories of social justice and the social psychology of social movements to argue that a key antecedent of support for disruptive collective action is perceived police procedural injustice. We analyze data from two longitudinalstudies conducted in Chile in the aftermath of the social outbreak of October 18, 2019 (Study
1: ELSOC, n = 1,864 and Study 2: OLES, n = 2,715). We show that perceiving that the police
treat people (Study 1) and protestors (Study 2) in unjust ways and through unjust proceduresconsistently predicts support for disruptive collective action over time. Study 1 provides evidence that procedural injustice predicts support for disruptive collective action partly by decreasing perceived trust in the police. At the same time, Study 2 shows that procedural injustice increases anger towards the police and identification with protestors, which in turn leads
to an increase in support for disruptive collective action. We finish by discussing the importance of considering the negative effect that police procedural injustice has in promoting
disruptive collective action. To de-escalate the conflict between police and protestors in Chileand around the world, governments should consider interventions that improve the fairnessof police procedures.
Just dead, not alive: Reconsidering belief in contradictory conspiracy theories
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
An impactful finding is that beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories (e.g., Princess Diana
was murdered vs. faked her own death) are positively correlated. This is commonly interpreted as evidence that conspiracy theorists believe blatant inconsistencies, up to the pointthat they are likely to perceive a person as dead and alive at the same time. Here we proposethat the field has insufficiently acknowledged a sobering but compelling alternative explanation: Disbelieving both conspiracy theories also yields a positive correlation. In four preregistered studies (total N = 7641), participants evaluated 28 sets of contradictory conspiracy
theories, while also indicating if they believed that the official reading of each event (e.g.,
Princess Diana died in a car accident) is true or false. The positive correlation between contradictory conspiracy beliefs replicated in all cases, but this was mostly due to participants
who believed the official readings of these events. Among participants who disbelieved theseofficial readings, the correlation was inconsistent at best. A mini meta-analysis revealed thatthe correlation among these participants was moderated by type of case: It was nonsignificant
for cases that did not refer to a protagonist being dead and alive, and it was significantly
negative for dead-or-alive cases. Participants believing contradictory conspiracy theories did
occur in the data, but in low proportions. The results suggest that researchers should reconsider the notion of systematic belief in contradictory conspiracy theories. The correlation
mostly reflects that people who disbelieve one conspiracy theory are likely to also disbelievea contradictory one.

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Symposia VI: 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
Room „Vortragssaal“: Reconciliation or Resistance? Social PsychologicalResearch on Peace and JusticeSocial psychological research on peace and conflict has often had a normative focus on positive intergroup attitudes and reconciliation–while paying less attention to resistance to injustice and how people counter structural violence to achieve positive peace that entails justice and equality (Galtung, 1969). Moreover, a growing body of research suggests that thesegoals are sometimes seemingly incompatible, such that promoting intergroup harmony may
undermine struggles for justice. This symposium brings together four talks that address therelationships between peace and reconciliation, resistance, and justice in diverse contexts ofintergroup violence and oppression. Diala Hawi presents an overview of the “irony of harmony” with a focus on power differences between groups, and shows data from the context
of racial inequality in the U.S. and intergroup relations in the Arab world that demonstratethese dynamics. Building on these ideas, Mai Albzour discusses how social psychologicalwork on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction creates epistemic injustice and silencesdisadvantaged groups’ experiences of violence and injustice; moreover, empirical data from
Palestinians in the West Bank demonstrates in parallel that positive intergroup contact has asedative effect on resistance to the occupation. Also in the context of the Occupied Palestinian
Territories, Sandra Penic presents geocoded data and a representative survey showing thatproximity to checkpoints is linked to decreased well-being, negative intergroup attitudes, andless support for peaceful forms of resistance, mediated by negative contact with soldiers;
these findings provide further evidence that positive intergroup contact to achieve peace isless relevant under structural conditions of repression. Finally, Yasemin Acar’s talk provides
a suggestion for how to resolve these seeming contradictions; she shows based on qualitative
data in the context of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey that when groups engage together inresistance to achieve greater social justice it also contributes to reconciliation.
The Role of Power Asymmetry in Intergroup Harmony and Perceptions of JusticeDiala Hawi
Numerous studies in psychology have explored the processes and mechanisms underlying(negative) intergroup relations and have gone on to propose multiple approaches to reducing
intergroup prejudice and hostility, with the aim of fostering harmony and reconciliation between groups in conflict or between the advantaged majority and disadvantaged minority(groups). However, until recently, this research often ignored structural constraints and theexisting power differences between groups, as well as whether these outcomes would translate to justice-based social change. For example, while high-power (or advantaged groups)
may prefer to focus on commonalities and friendly relations between groups, this may inadvertently maintain the status quo and undermine efforts toward social change. In attempting
to achieve “harmony”, unintended consequences may emerge: In some cases, members of
disadvantaged groups may feel less motivated to challenge inequalities, while at the sametime, their needs as a group (e.g., recognition and acknowledgement of injustice) often go
unheard. These power-based differences can be found among racial/ethnic minorities, as wellas immigrants and refugees. This talk will present data from contexts in the U.S. and the Arabworld that highlight some of these power differences and the distinction between attitudechange and social change based on greater justice and equality.
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Portraying Palestine in the Social Psychology of Prejudice and Reconciliation – On
Imposing Moral Guidelines on Oppressed Groups with Technical Concepts
Mai Albzour
This talk contributes to the growing critical discourse in social psychology investigating theprocess of knowledge production that has helped reproduce colonial domination by erasing
the narratives of disadvantaged groups’ experiences of oppression and injustice, and uncovering the epistemological violence of this erasure in social psychological research on peaceand conflict (e.g., Hakim et al., 2023; Reddy & Amer, 2023). Specifically, this talk criticallyreviews the use of Allport's (1954) contact theory as a tool for conflict reduction and reconciliation within the context of settler colonialism in Palestine. I discuss linguistic and ideological implications of this approach, and the resulting moral judgments and political impositions. Through a rhetorical analysis of the academic uses of ‘prejudice’, we demonstrate therigidity currently ailing the field. We argue that while the concept of prejudice is used as atechnical term in scientific literature, it often serves the same rhetorical function as its laydiscourse counterpart and contributes to epistemic injustice. The second part of the talk examines how this focus on positive intergroup contact may actually undermine resistancestruggles against injustice. Cross-sectional survey data shows that Palestinians’ experienceof positive contact contributes to the sedative effect of contact through reduced support forresistance (Albzour et al., 2019). In sum, we discuss how influential social psychological literature on prejudice and reconciliation portrays the Palestinian context, and how this, in turn,imposes a moral perception of social change that disregards disadvantaged groups’ experiences and contributes to epistemic injustice that may further undermine struggles for justiceand positive peace.
Blocking Peace at the Checkpoint: On the Negative Impact of the Built Environment ofRepression
Sandra Penić
In this talk, we examine how the built environment of repression—i.e., large-scale, physicalinfrastructure built to control and separate social groups—affects the well-being as well as
attitudes towards reconciliation and resistance among the local population. Specifically, we
focus on checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Whereas Israel justifies checkpoints as a primary means of preventing Palestinian violence, empirical evidence is mixed.
Combining geo-coded data on permanent checkpoints across the West Bank and Jerusalem
with a representative survey of the adult population from 49 Palestinian communities(N=1000), we find that residing in proximity to checkpoints is linked to increases support forviolent resistance, decreased support for peaceful and cooperative forms of resistance, increased negative intergroup attitudes, and lower well-being. Moreover, we find that the impact of checkpoints is mediated by (negative) contact with soldiers; and that interactions withsoldiers at checkpoints are the most frequent form of intergroup contact that Palestinian civilians have with Israelis. Overall, this study identifies troubling backlash effects of repressive
infrastructures such as checkpoints. Moreover, it suggests that psychological approaches toconflict resolution that center on reconciliation and positive intergroup contact are of limited
relevance when living under structural conditions of surveillance and repression.

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Reconciliation through Resistance to Injustice: Intraminority Solidarity and Alliances at
the Gezi Park Protests
Yasemin Acar
This talk presents qualitative data to examine the positive relation between resistance among
disadvantaged groups, reconciliation, and work towards justice in the context of the Gezi
Park protests in Turkey. The Gezi Park protests are a milestone for system-challenging collective action practices in Turkey. Now, ten years on, the impact of these protests on Turkey’s
political landscape is still being discussed and debated. Protest participants were initially only
held together by their opposition to then Prime Minister Erdoğan, but soon, overarching identities emerged that only increased the connections between groups and created a solidaritythat continued, in many cases, for years. Of particular note is how collective action and solidarity fostered prejudice reduction and positive regard between disadvantaged groups working together for policy change at Gezi. Interviews with participants of the protests indicatethat working in cooperation at the protests fostered recognition of both historical atrocities,
such as against Armenians, and of contemporary rights violations, such as against Kurds andthe LGBT community. Overall, findings suggest that joint resistance to injustice can foster
reconciliation between disadvantaged groups, who can then work together more efficiently
to demand social justice from the advantaged.

Room „Konferenzraum“: Moral Indignation - a strong social emotion and a key
concept to understand conflict and social changeThis symposium focusses the morally based emotion of indignation and explores its role in
the emergence, development and settlement of conflicts and the initiation of prosocial behavior. Occasion specific and dispositional facets are distinguished and approaches to measuring-approaches are presented. Finally, implications of diffused indignation on an interpersonal as well as on a group level are discussed. Using a metaanalytic inspection of 40 mixedmethod studies, Kals et al. show that indignation motivates prosocial behavior (e,g, volunteering or pro-environmental behavior). Indignation can instigate and escalate hot conflicts
but can also help to settle them if a reappraisal of its cognitive components is successful.
Schreiber et al. center on four critical components (norm violation, personal consternation,transgressor´s responsibility, lack of justification). In an experimental online-study with 1077
participants in which the four components were manipulated in a completely-crossed between-subjects design they find strong support for the components´ importance. Maes et al.
present a scale to assess individual proneness to indignation along with a large set of otherpersonality traits. With that instrument, they can differentiate indignation from anger anddescribe the differences. Finally, Geppert uses the tool of agent based modelling to explainincreasing polarization of a population (assumption is that phenomena on group level emerge
from repeated behavior on agent level), She includes justice related personality traits (among
them justice sensitivity and a tendency for moral indignation). The model shows that theinclusion of these variables has an influence on agents´ consensus finding or polarization.

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Indignation: the powerful emotional counterpart of perceived injusticeElisabeth Kals
Focusing on emotions, especially indignation as the key emotion of perceived injustice, is thesilver bullet to understand injustice, its impact on behaviour and social conflict. This understanding is based on about 40 empirical, mixed-method studies conducted in our researchgroup focusing on the question: What motivational role do indignation and justice cognitions
play in explaining prosocial behaviour and social conflict? It could be shown that indignation
explains significant parts of the variance in different prosocial fields of action, including volunteering. Using the example of pro-environmental behaviour, it is shown that indignation
about inadequate protection measures is a strong predictor of behaviour and differentiates
between committed and non-committed groups. The belief that one can change feelings ofindignation by volunteering even proved to be a useful extension of Clary and Snyder’s Volunteer Functions Inventory in the context of environmental volunteering. Indignation overinadequate economic goals can explain other parts of criterion variance, reflecting the competitive nature of injustice and explaining ecological and other conflicts. Injustice is at theheart of (almost) all hot conflicts, as Leo Montada said. To understand these conflicts, a cognitive reappraisal is possible by questioning the underlying cognitions and transforming assertoric judgements into hypothetical ones. Indignation is of high diagnostic relevance andcan be reliably measured. Focusing on this emotion enables a deeper understanding of human decision-making, delves into the epicentre of social conflicts with their deep structure
and possible resolution. Indignation is therefore worth exploring further.
The role of cognition on moral indignation and conflict behavior
Rune Miram
Effectively regulating emotions is crucial for sustainable conflict transformation. Cognitive
appraisal theory highlights that analyzing underlying cognitions of emotions improves theunderstanding and regulation of these emotions. One of the emotions that has been found tobe central in a variety of social conflicts is moral indignation. However, research on its underlying cognitive components still remains scarce. Based on the theory of social conflict by
Montada and Kals (2013), our study investigates whether the cognitive components of indignation (i) norm violation, (ii) being affected by the action, (iii) responsibility of the transgressor, (iv) no reasonable explanation of action can explain indignation. We, furthermore, investigated how these components affect related conflict behaviors (punishment, warning others).
In an experimental online study (N = 1077), we varied the presence of the cognitive components in a completely-crossed between-subjects design. Our results show that norm violation
plays a central role for indignation and related conflict behaviors. People feel moral indignation and warn others about the transgressor when they perceive a situation to violate moral
norms in combination with at least one other component (ii. being affected by this norm
violation or iii. holding the transgressor responsible for the norm violation). For punishment,
norm violation and at least two other components have to be present, however, the probabilityof punishment is notably higher when all components are present. The results improve theunderstanding of moral indignation and related conflict behaviors and help to inform potential mechanisms for conflict resolution. Further theoretical and practical implications will be
discussed.
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Proneness to indignation and its demarcation from anger
Jürgen Maes
Indignation is often measured as an occasion specific reaction to circumstances (e,g, public
policy, political failure, unfair treatment, immoral behavior). In our study we tried to measureindignation as a dispositional tendency to experience indignation against other people ordisapproved circumstances. Combining certain indicators of indignation (disapproval, reproach, lack of comprehension) with different personal and public situations we developed aquestionnaire for the individual proneness to experience indignation. The scales showed highrealibilities and trans-situational consistency. Using an online panel sample with 200 participants (96 male, 101 female, 3 diverse, mean age: 35 years) proneness to indignation wasmeasured along with a large set of other traits (trait anger, big five, centrality of justice, injustice sensitivity from a victim, an observer and a perpetrator perspective, adherence to values sensu Schwartz, draconity) in order to locate it in the personality space. With this dataset, it was possible to differentiate dispositional indignation from similar constructs. E. g. it
was clearly possible to separate indignation from anger. E.g. indignation correlated higher
than anger with moral orientations, with centrality for justice, and with the observer and theperpetrator perspective of justice sensitivity (but not so much with the victim perspective).
Moreover, indignation referred more to public events, anger more to personal events.
Modelling Polarisation Using Justice Related Traits
Rahel Geppert
Opinion polarisation has recently become an omnipresent topic in research and an increasingly fashionable term in public debate. There already is much discussion on how to describe
polarisation (see e.g. Alvim et al., 2019; Whiting & Bauchowitz, 2022) and even less is known
about how to explain it. One tool to help describe and explain mass phenomena is agent
based modelling: in an agent based model, mass phenomena on group level, such as increasing polarisation of a population, emerge from repeated behaviour on agent level (cf. Epstein,
2008; Salzarulo, 2006). The model presented here is based on classical bounded confidence
models (see e.g. Bramson et al., 2017 for an overview) and includes several justice related
personality traits in the definition of the agents: agents show manifestations on the dimensions of empathy, tolerance for ambiguity, justice sensitivity and tendency for moral indignation. The underlying distributions of these traits as well as their interaction were modelled
after empirical data found in a large-scale online study. In our model we show that includingthese variables in the agents’ approaching and persuasion processes influences whether
agents reach a consensus or whether they become polarised on certain issues. Implications
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Room „Viereckhof: Erdgeschoss“: Behavior in the Courtroom
Magistrates and Social Technicians’ perceptions within portuguese juvenile justicesystemElisabete PessanhaThis study aims to understand magistrates’ perceptions about the role of social and psychological reports within juvenile justice system. Regarding technicians’ perceptions, it intends
to acess their perspectives on the relevance of psychosocial assessment and case managing;as well as their views on magistrates’ valuation of technical work. Finally, it aims to explore
the interaction and cooperation between these professional groups. Twelve semi-structured
interviews were conducted with Juvenile Justice magistrates: nine judges and three prosecutors. Simultaneously, twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with social technicians (graduated in Psychology, Social Service, Education Sciences) from the Portuguese Juvenile Justice Services. Two semi-structured protocols were developed for this purpose. Data
was analysed using a thematic analysis approach. From the magistrates’ perspective, an expressive valuation is assigned to psychosocial assessment (pre-sentence phase) and managing of juvenile justice cases (post sentencing phase) by contributing to informed judicial decision-making. A central role is played by social technicians, while serving as a mediator
between magistrates and youth/their families. From the technicians’ perspective, psychosocial assessment is recognized as a fundamental piece for a well-function juvenile justice system. Transcriptions of technical reports in juvenile court sentences are a good exemple ofthis influence. In parallel lack of human ressources is constantly reported, despite citationsof diverse youth-oriented programs and quality technicians. A demand for a more frequent
managing and follow up of young socioeducational measures is required. Lastly, a betterinteraction between magistrates and technicians is recognized as a great need to improve
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Intersecting identities and judging on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Susan Haire
Identity shapes decision making by those who hold positions of power. Shared lived experiences with race discrimination are believed to contribute to cleavages with African Americans
and Latinx demonstrating fault lines in political behavior defined by their racial and ethnic
background. Identity and socializing experiences associated with gender also fuel differences. Because individuals possess multiple identities, an intersectional lens is used to examine the role of gender and race in shaping judicial decision making on the US Courts ofAppeals. This frame draws on social science research that finds members of multiple marginalized groups (including elites) face additional hurdles that fuel stigmatization. For example, studies indicate that leadership obstacles, and penalties for mistakes, tend to be far
greater for women of color than for white women and men of color. Women of color in thelegal profession are more likely to report discriminatory treatment and, colleagues and clients
under-estimate their abilities. In contrast, research also finds that individuals with multiple
shared in-group identities appear to be better positioned to develop strategies, in part because they are able to “switch” social identities with more opportunities for interactions beyond those with “single” identities. These varying perspectives all support an expectationthat judges who are women of color bring distinctive perspectives to the bench as evidenced
in their opinion authorship. Drawing on a dataset of 2,880 cases decided with publishedopinion from 2009-2016, I test whether a judge’s race-gender affects their crafting of the
majority opinion. Using linguistic software and text analysis methods, I explore how a judge’s
race-gender shapes language use.
Do they deserve sympathy, derogation, or blame; responding to miscarriage of justicevictims
Charli Sherman
Little research has directly explored how the victims of a miscarriage of justice are perceived
and responded to from a just-world perspective. Just-world theory suggests that the world isa just and fair place where people get what they deserve. At times everyday events suggestthat this is not always the case. During these times of uncertainty victims can face derogation
and blame to restore a sense of justice for the observer. Whereas a miscarriage of justiceindicates that the perpetrator was punished which should offer an objective and systematic
way to restore justice for the original victim(s). However, this can result in further injustice if
a wrongful conviction occurs. The ‘Innocence Project’ specialises in assisting in the exoneration of wrongly accused individuals, yet how the public responds to these victims can vary.
Research by Clow and Leach (2015) found that wrongfully convicted individuals were seen
as more blameworthy if they gave a false confession (with/without coercion) compared tothose that were misidentified by a witness. This research began by exploring whether wrongfully convicted individuals are derogated and blamed in a similar way as traditional victims.
Before deploying a selective exposure task which allowed participants to selectively attend/
avoid information that supported the person's innocence. Finally, the researcher deployed aseries of exploratory tasks where participants wore a mobile eye tracker to see whether participants possess biases based on pre-existing knowledge and how motivated they are to confirm or refute their innocence in real-world tasks.
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Room „Viereckhof: Obergeschoss“: Inequality and Inequity
Inequity Aversion: A Moral or Self-Interested Response?
Jody Clay-Warner
A core tenet of equity theory is that people are averse to inequitable distributions, and considerable empirical research supports this claim. Less research has examined why people are
averse to inequity, though many suggest that it is due to either an underlying self-interest
motive or moral motive. Here we examine whether inequity aversion reflects underlying selfinterest motives and/or morality by examining emotional responses to advantageous inequity.
We posit that fear in response to advantageous inequity signals self-interest, while guilt reflects an underlying moral motive. We present results of two laboratory experiments, both ofwhich contain three outcome conditions (under-reward, over-reward, equitable reward). The
first experiment also manipulates the public vs. private nature of the reward outcome. The
second manipulates the possibility of future interaction with the other recipient. In study 1,
we find that guilt is significantly higher in the private over-reward condition than in the public
over-reward condition, while fear does not differ across conditions. Conversely, in study 2 wefind higher levels of fear among over-rewarded participants who believe they will interact
with the under-rewarded other than among over-rewarded participants who do not anticipate
interacting with the other recipient. There were no differences in guilt across interaction
conditions. These results suggest that both self-interest and moral motivations are involved
in inequity aversion but that the self-interest motive takes primacy in situations in which there
is a high risk of social consequences.
Justice for everyone? Differences in the Scope of Justice in Europe
Stefan Liebig
The acceptance and legitimacy of modern welfare states is also determined by the extent towhich the existing social security systems correspond to the concepts of social justice in asociety. The ideas about social justice shared by the majority in a society also determine who
can assert which claims against the social security systems. Welfare states are traditionally
nationally oriented, and the citizens of the country are primarily understood as the addresseesof the social security systems. However, as a result of current migration movements, European welfare states are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of the composition of their
populations according to ethnic, cultural and religious characteristics, and welfare state regulation needs are emerging that include not only citizens (e.g. refugees). This also makes
more urgent the question of who can make what demands on the welfare state in heterogeneous societies. Based on comparative survey data from the 9th round of the European Social
Survey (ESS, 2018), this paper therefore asks what ideas exist in Europe about the "scope ofjustice" and how these vary between and within different welfare states. The central researchquestion is which societal and individual factors are decisive for the attitude that the fourbasic orientations of social justice (equity, equality, need, entitlement) should have a universalistic, particularistic or restrictive scope.

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Fair in whose eyes? Justice concerns and housing in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal
Raquel Ribeiro
The right to adequate housing is central to human life, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. However, theprovision of housing has been historically associated with the (re)production of social, economic, and territorial inequalities, in Portugal as elsewhere. Notwithstanding, justice has
been largely neglected in housing studies. This communication intends to address this gap
by examining justice concerns expressed in the discourses and opinions about housing issues
by residents from the Portuguese metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto. To achieve theproposed aim, a mixed methodology is used recurring to the analysis of data from 42 semistructured interviews, 2 focus group discussions, and an online survey. Preliminary results
show that justice evaluations are rarely spontaneously evoked by residents when referring tohousing. However, the analysis of the expressed arguments and emotional responses suggests important concerns about the justice of particular housing policies (e.g., rent freeze,
Airbnb) by the groups negatively affected by them. Justice concerns also refer to policy implementation, namely in social housing attribution or the application of rental law (e.g., repair
works, non-discrimination, non-compliance with rent payment). Results are discussed considering the role of justice evaluations in future policymaking and policy implementation, in
a time when trust and cooperation between the different stakeholders are fundamental toaddressing the current housing crisis.
Subjective inequity aversion: Unfair inequality, subjective well-being, and preferences
for redistribution
Fabian KalleitnerFollowing the ideas of interdependent preferences and relative deprivation theory, this paperargues that 'inequity aversion' can be understood as an emotional reaction to perceived injustice. Previous research shows that subjective perceptions of inequity and not objective
deviations from equality are crucial to understanding how individuals react to inequality. The
paper formalizes these insights by adapting the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion replacing the fairness frame of objective equality with subjectively perceived equity. We test
this model using data from the European Social Survey 2018 analyzing the link between respondents' reported own, top, and bottom income fairness to subjective well-being and preferences for redistribution. Results from spline regressions with country-fixed effects indicatethat perceived injustice of own and top incomes is positively related to individuals' subjective
well-being. For the perceived injustice of bottom incomes, we find no substantive relationships with subjective well-being. Further analyses indicate a substantial link between theperceived injustice of bottom and top incomes and preferences for redistribution. In sum, ourresults suggest that injustice perceived for oneself is connected to utility while perceived
injustice of others is related to increased willingness to back redistributive policy proposals
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Arrival and Directions
How to get to the conference venue
Katholische Akademie in Bayern
Mandlstraße 23
80802 München
We strongly encourage you not taking the car, since parking spots are very rare around thevenue.
If you arrive by train and public transport:When arriving at Munich central station (Hauptbahnhof) by train take the subway
line U4 or U5 (U4: direction "Arabellapark"; U5: direction "Neuperlach Süd") andget off at "Odeonsplatz". From "Odeonsplatz" take the subway line U6 or U3 (U6:direction "Garching Forschungszentrum/Münchner Freiheit"; U3: direction"Moosach") and get off at the stop "Münchner Freiheit".

If you arrive by plane:
You arrive at Munich international airport (MUC). If you want to proceed by public
transport, you can either

take the S-Bahn (S1 or S8) to "Marienplatz" and change to the subway line U6 or U3(U6: direction "Garching Forschungszentrum/Münchner Freiheit"; U3: direction"Moosach"). Get off at the stop "Münchner Freiheit" ortake the Lufthansa Airport Bus: Get off at the stop "Nordfriedhof" and change to U6:
direction Marienplatz; get off at the stop "Münchner Freiheit".

The venue is walking distance from the U-Bahn stop "Münchner Freiheit":

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How to get to the Conference Dinner at Augustiner-Keller
The conference dinner will take place in the Augustiner-Keller, Arnulfstr. 52, 80335 München. There are several public transportation stops close to the Augustiner-Keller, depending on what kind of public transportation you may want to use. So when you do not comefrom the conference venue, you have plenty of options to arrive:

You may arrive with the U-Bahn (U1, U2, U4, or U5) at the “Hauptbahnhof” (Main
Station). From “Hauptbahnhof”, it’s a 10 minutes walk.
You may arrive with the S-Bahn (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, or S8) at the“Hauptbahnhof” (Main Station; 10 minutes walk) or “Hackerbrücke”. From
“Hackerbrücke”, it’s a 5 minutes walk.
You may arrive with the Tram (Lines 16 and 17) at “Hackerbrücke” or“Hopfenstraße”. From “Hackerbrücke” and “Hopfenstraße”, it’s a 5 minutes walk.

From the conference venue, we suggest taking the following option:
You walk to the U-Bahn stop "Münchner Freiheit" (620m; see above) and take theU3 or U6 to “Odeonsplatz” (usually these trains run from Track 2 or Track 4). There,
you switch to U4 or U5 (direction “Laimer Platz” or “Westendstraße”; usually thesetrains run from Track 1). You exit at the “Hauptbahnhof” (Main Station) and walk to
the Augustiner-Keller (1.1 km).

Conference Venue

Augustiner-Keller

Tickets for U-Bahn and S-Bahn can be purchased in any U-Bahn and S-Bahn Station. You
can pay these tickets by card. Tickets for Trams and Buses can be purchased in the vehicles; however, you may have to pay them cash. If you start at the conference venue (or in
the inner circle of Munich), you need to purchase a ticket for Zone M (3.70 €; valid for one
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