Abstract

The author investigated the effects of just world belief on the egocentric fairness bias among Japanese undergraduates. After responding to the Just World (JW) Scale (Rubin & Peplau, 1975) and to a set of fair and unfair behaviors, the participants were divided into 2 groups (low JW and high JW) according to their responses to the scale. The egocentric fairness bias was confirmed; the participants tended to consider their own behaviors as fair rather than unfair and other people's behaviors as unfair rather than fair. High-JW participants regarded their own behaviors as fairer and those of other people as less fair than did low-JW participants. The egocentric fairness bias was stronger in the participants who believed strongly in a just world than in those whose belief in a just world was weaker.

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