Justice sensitivity

The kind of unfairness that gets to you most.

Justice sensitivity (Schmitt, Baumert, Gollwitzer & Maes, 2010) is a validated individual-difference measure of how strongly people react to injustice — and from which vantage point they feel it most keenly. (Justice Sensitivity Inventory (Schmitt et al.))

Groups

• When it happens to me — You feel injustice most sharply when you're the one treated unfairly.
• When you witness it — Unfairness to others, even strangers, really gets to you.
• When you benefit unfairly — You feel uneasy when you gain from an unfair advantage.
• When you cause it — You're most troubled when you've treated someone unfairly.

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• Legal philosophy
• View of justice
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• Your relationship with rules

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