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Comparative Study of Rules of Justice: Japanese Versus American
I. Mahler, L. Greenberg & H. Hayashi |
Two
approaches to the topic of Justice are reported in this study done
on 262 Japanese and 153 American college and university students.
Japanese students score significantly lower than do American students
on the Just World (JW) scale devised to measure belief that this
is a Just World in which people get what they deserve. When faced
with stories about problems of distributive justice, there is a tendency
for American students to prefer the use of an equity rule in the
distribution of rewards, and there is a tendency for Japanese subjects
to prefer the rule of equality or parity. For both groups, evidence
is reported that students who score on the internal end of a scale
measuring locus of control prefer the rule of equity, but students
who score on the external end of the locus of control scale prefer
the rule of equality or parity.
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