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Revista Colombiana de Psicología

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BARREIRO JOSE, ALICIA  and  CASTORINA, ANTONIO. Belief in a Just World as Ideological Background for the Social Representation of Justice. Rev. colomb. psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.2, pp.331-345. ISSN 0121-5469.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v24n2.44294.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationships between social representations and ideology through the study of the relationship between ideological belief in a just world (BJW) and the social representation of justice. The technique of word association was used, and the BJW general scale was administered to 404 Argentinian university students. The core of the social representation expresses a retributive meaning, although differences in peripheral elements were identified. Individuals with low and medium BJW consider justice to be a social institution with errors in its operation, whereas individuals with high BJW think of justice as something beyond society, without qualifying it.

Keywords : social representation; ideology; justice; belief in a just world.

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