Observer's reaction to the "innocent victim": Compassion or rejection?Melvin J. Lerner, Carolyn H. Simmons1966-01-01articleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology920 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Social and Intergroup PsychologyEmotions and Moral BehaviorPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentAbstractNo abstract was published for this record.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 920 citations exist upstream.References1954A Theory of Social Comparison Processes2017A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance1958The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.1963Behavioral Study of obedience.1965Evaluation of performance as a function of performer's reward and attractiveness.Cited by2005Experimental Research on Just-World Theory: Problems, Developments, and Future Challenges.1975Responses to Uncontrollable Outcomes: An Integration of Reactance Theory and the Learned Helplessness Model1981Is altruism part of human nature?1999The World is More Just for Me than Generally: About the Personal Belief in a Just World Scale's Validity1980Who Believes in a Just World1969Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon?1973Belief in a Just World and Reactions to Another's Lot: A Study of Participants in the National Draft Lottery11982Attribution bias: On the inconclusiveness of the cognition-motivation debate