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This paper is concerned with the sense of injustice of the victim and the victimizer. In it we consider the reasons for the differential sensitivity to injustice of the victim and the victimizer and the conditions necessary for awakening the sense of injustice in these different participants in an unjust relationship.
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This paper is a modified version of a paper originally published in Lerner and Ross (1974) and then published in revised form in Deutsch (1985).
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Deutsch, M., Steil, J.M. Awakening the sense of injustice. Soc Just Res 2, 3–23 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052297
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