Political scientists regularly measure anti-Black prejudice in the survey context using racial resentment, an indirect that blends animus with traditional moral values. Explicit prejudice, a direct based beliefs about group-level inferiority of Blacks, is used less frequently. We investigate whether these attitudes predict discrimination and evaluations fairness intergroup inequality. Study 1 U...

The term ‘privileged access’, on the lips and keyboards of philosophers, expresses an intuition that self-knowledge is unique among the knowledges human beings possess, unique in being somehow more direct and less prone to error than other kinds of knowledge such as, say, our knowledge of the physical world or of the mental states of others. These notions of ‘directness ‘ and ‘immunity to error...

Purpose. The article is aimed at developing specific psychological assistance necessary for the constructive experience in coping with offence on basis of psychodrama group functioning analysis. It relevant various levels, ranging from training groups to studying social macro-processes society. Methods. peculiarities are established theory analysis.Results. Offence a common phenomenon interpers...

We study ‘regional resentment’, or the feeling that one’s region is not treated rightly by citizens and elites from other regions, in a European context. Is this mainly rural peripheral phenomenon, do these two contextual characteristics matter equally? present three survey items to measure regional resentment, field it among geocoded representative sample of 8000 Dutch stratified urbanity, sho...

Abstract I argue that fitting resentment tracks unacceptable ‘ecological’ imbalances in relative social strength between victims and perpetrators arise from violations of legitimate moral expectations. It does not respond purely, or even primarily, to offenders’ attitudes, its proper targets need be fully developed agents. characteristically involves a wish for the restoration equilibrium rathe...