RT Article
T1 Justice Sensitivity Is Positively and Negatively Related to Prejudice and Discrimination
JF International journal of conflict and violence
VO 15
SP 1
OP 13
A1 Bondü, Rebecca
A2 Schwemmer, Felicia
A2 Pfetsch, Jan
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840085967
AB The trait justice sensitivity captures individual differences in the tendency to perceive injustice and to negatively respond to these perceptions. The tendency to negatively respond to injustice to one’s disadvantage (victim justice sensitivity) was reliably linked to different measures of antisocial behavior and conservative values. Thus, we assumed that victim justice sensitivity should also be positively related to prejudice and discrimination. In contrast, the tendency to negatively respond to injustice to the disadvantage of others (altruistic justice sensitivity), was reliably linked to prosocial behavior. Hence, we assumed that altruistic justice sensitivity should also show negative relations with prejudice and discrimination. In order to test these assumptions, we surveyed justice sensitivity, prejudices against three different groups, and discrimination experiences among N=343 participants (M=26.61 years, 79 percent women) in Germany. We found that victim justice sensitivity predicted more self-perpetrated discrimination. Altruistic justice sensitivity predicted less total prejudice and self-perpetrated discrimination and mediated the link between self-experienced discrimination and prejudice/self-perpetrated discrimination unless age, gender, and education were controlled for. Discrimination can promote discrimination. Future research on correlates and potential risk and protective factors of prejudice and discrimination should also consider justice sensitivity as a moral-related trait.
K1 Authoritarianism
K1 Discrimination
K1 justice sensitivity
K1 Prejudice
K1 Social dominance orientation
DO 10.11576/ijcv-4463