Table of Contents

1. An Overview: Advances in Belief in a Just World Theory and Methods.- Advances in Research on Observers’ Reactions to Victims.- 2. Immanent Justice and Ultimate Justice: Two Ways of Believing in Justice.- 3. BJW and Self-Efficacy in Coping with Observed Victimization: Results from a Study about Unemployment.- 4. How Do Observers of Victimization Preserve Their Belief in a Just World Cognitively or Actionally? Findings from a Longitudinal Study.- Innovative Extensions of BJW and Self-Experienced Injustices.- 5. Individual Differences in the Belief in a Just World and Responses to Personal Misfortune.- 6. Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Coping with an Unjust Fate.- 7. Belief in a Just World and Right-Wing Authoritarianism as Moderators of Perceived Risk.- 8. The Belief in a Just World and Willingness to Accommodate among Married and Dating Couples.- Analytic Perspectives for Assessing the Construct: Belief in a Just World.- 9. Measuring the Beliefs in a Just World.- 10. Eight Stages in the Development of Research on the Construct of Belief in a Just World?.- 11. Methodological Strategies in Research to Validate Measures of Belief in a Just World.- Looking Back and Then Forward to the Next Generation of Research on BJW.- 12. Belief in a Just World: A Hybrid of Justice Motive and Self-Interest?.- 13. The Two Forms of Belief in a Just World: Some Thoughts on Why and How People Care about Justice.