4244 - Engaging Social Psychology in the Pursuit of Social Justice

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Complementing the theme of the 2019 meetings, “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World,” this session captures the role of individual level beliefs, perceptions, and emotions in assessments of social injustice. While the social psychological study of justice processes is well-developed in arenas such as the workplace and family, the application of such processes to the dynamics surrounding race, gender, and other status-based disparities in health outcomes, educational opportunities, income, criminal sentencing, environmental burdens, and the like lags. Yet, analysis of how people assess the fairness of distributions, procedures, and treatment provides a basis for understanding the transformation of inequalities into social injustices and may suggest strategies to ameliorate such macro-level injustices. Papers analyze theoretically or empirically the role of basic social psychological justice processes in addressing and redressing unjust inequalities in various realms of social life.

Sub Unit

• Section on Social Psychology / Engaging Social Psychology in the Pursuit of Social Justice

Session Organizer

• Karen A. Hegtvedt, Emory University

Presider

• Karen A. Hegtvedt, Emory University

Individual Presentations

• The Palliative Function of Legality Beliefs on Mental Health - Laura Upenieks, University of Toronto; Ron Levi, University of Toronto; John Hagan, Northwestern University

• Patterns of Exchange, Justice Evaluations, and Group Identification across Two Forms of Exchange - Scott V. Savage, University of Houston; Jacob Apkarian, CUNY, York College; Hyomin Park, Sungkyunkwan University

• The Impact of Inequality and Mobility Perceptions on Beliefs about Meritocracy and Policy Preferences - Nicholas Heiserman, University of South Carolina; Brent Simpson, University of South Carolina-Columbia; Robb Willer, Stanford Universty

• Social Roles and Standard Operating Procedures: Attributions of Responsibility and Punishment for Financial Crime - Marshall Schmidt, Montclair State University

Discussant

• Jody Clay-Warner, University of Georgia