著者

北村 英哉

出版者

東洋大学社会学部

雑誌

東洋大学社会学部紀要 = The Bulletin of Faculty of Sociology,Toyo University (ISSN:04959892)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.56, no.2, pp.39-48, 2019-03

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According to Just World Theory, good people deserve reward, while bad people would suffer from bad events. In this study, to investigate whether good or bad character information has an impact on the judgment of responsibility of two vignettes describing bad events, seventy-nine participants read vignettes and responded to the items related to causal attribution. Furthermore, the relationship of moral foundations and just world belief with the judgments was tested. In the results, participants in low score on the fairness foundation showed more discrepancy between good target and bad target in dispositional attribution. In bad target condition, low fairness group attributed causation of bad accidents more to the target persons. While high fairness group responded almost the same way whether the target person was good or bad. And resentment scale was found to correlate with immanent justice significantly. The relation of moral and resentment would be discussed.