Contents
Editor’s Column
Dear Friends.
Our meeting is getting nearer!!! You’ll find all the
relevant information – dates, call for papers,
etc. – in this issue of the newsletter.
As is our
custom, we try to maintain some sections that are constant: A note from
the president, the updated members’ list, etc., and add a
“surprise” section. This time – it’s a brief summary of the
Skövde,
2002 meeting, and a bunch of pictures from the conference sent by Kjel
Törnblom!
We
continue to inform you about changes in the lives of our members –
promotions, job changes, new research projects. Is there anything you
would like to share with us? Feel free to send it to me, and it will be
included in the next edition.
As
always – the updated list of members is enclosed. Karen Hegtvedt
takes care of updates, so – please inform her of any changes (khegtve@emory.edu )
The
last segment includes membership renewal information. If you are
not a member yet – please write to us or send an e-mail to Faye Crosby (
fjcrosby@cats.ucsc.edu ) .
Finally,
may we remind you – if you did not send your conference registration
forms yet, please do so soonest.
Our next
issue (hopefully - June, 2004) will include more specific information
about our June 29 - July 2, 2004 conference
in Canada .
Dahlia Moore.
Editor.
Please send all suggestions,
comments or material
you want to include to
dmoore@colman.ac.il
and we’ll do our best to include it.
Dahlia Moore
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A note from the
President
Where does the time go?
It seems like yesterday that
Leo Montada was saying a sweet farewell to his tour as President of
ISJR. In fact, it seems like a week ago that Mel Lerner was
inviting many of us to a small meeting, in Leiden I
think it was, for the start of what has now become ISJR.
Now it is my turn to anticipate the changing of the guard. In our
June meeting, Claudia Dalbert will take over the reigns. Really,
where does the time go?
Serving as President of ISJR has been very fulfilling for me, and I
hope and trust that the other officers and I are passing on to Claudia
an
organization that is as strong now as it was two years ago. I
think
we are in great shape. Dahlia Moore has done a great job with the
newsletter, so that information about us and about individual members
reaches
many different constituencies. John Jost has begun to work
vigorously
with our journal, SJR. Karen Hegtvedt and Kees van den Bos, assisted by
Anette Weidler and Sibylle Classen, have served us valiantly, helping
us
to expand and regularize our operations. Our finances are stable.
Membership is increasing steadily. The executive committee has
decided to drop people from membership if they consistently fail to pay
dues. Yet, we have more members on the books now than we did a
year ago. Particularly gratifying is the growth in student
memberships.
Not surprisingly, the 2004 conference, hosted by the University of
Regina and by the Canadian Institute of Justice and Security, looks as
if it will be wonderful. Jeff Pfeifer is taking the lead in
organizing
the conference. He is assisted by Katherine Owens, who will also help
people make travel plans before and after the conference. Other
members
of the organizing committee are Romona Bobocel, Ken Leyton-Brown, John
Ellard, Carolyn Hafer, and Murray Knuttila. Chief Justice
McLaughlin
will be one of the keynote speakers. Judging from the
submissions,
the conference will have the same exciting interdisciplinary and
international
flavor that has marked all of our conferences. How fitting that
the
10th biannual conference should have as its theme: Social Justice in
the
World Today: Theory and Practice! For more information about the
conference, you can link to the conference website from our main
organizational
website ( www.isjr.org ).
Some work remains to be done. We need to further streamline some
of our administrative processes. We need to determine rules and
practices and apply them evenly in all situations. We need to
increase
the flow of excellent articles to SJR. We need to
grow
our membership so that John Jost and we can bring SJR to the place of
having
it listed in scholarly indexes.
And there is one other need we also have, which is very present in
my mind. We need soon to determine the location of the 2006
conference. The custom is to alternate stops. As 2004 is in
North America, it would be best to hold the 2006 conference in Asia,
Latin America, Africa, or Europe. PLEASE, if you are thinking
that your university might like to be the host in 2006, get in touch
with me so that I can help you prepare materials
for presentation at the 2004 business meeting.
I’d like to close the brief note by thanking you all. Thank you
for your involvement in social justice
research and in social justice.
Faye Crosby
ISJR President
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A note from the
Treasurer
The dues
paying membership of ISJR for fiscal year 2003 was 92. Kluwer
Academic/Plenum, the publisher of Social Justice Research, has been
sent the 2003 membership list and should shortly be sending out all
issues of the journal for 2003.
To date, 84 people have paid dues for fiscal year 2004. We are in
the process of preparing that list for Kluwer so that the 2004 issues
of SJR can be sent out as they are produced. If you have not paid
your dues for 2004, please do so (you can use the credit card form
attached
to the newsletter.) We will periodically update the dues-paid
list
to Kluwer, but it is most efficient to submit one list early in the
fiscal
year. Those paying later are likely to receive their issues of
SJR
as a bundle at the end of the year.
The current ISJR banking balance is about $ 5325. Forthcoming and
past expenses include journal subscriptions and administrative
costs (e.g., wire transfers, stamps, dues processing).
Karen A. Hegtvedt
Emory University
ISJR Treasurer
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A note from the Conference Organizer
Dear Colleagues.
The 10th International Society for Justice Research Conference is
coming to Saskatchewan in 2004. It will be held on June
30th
– July 3rd, 2004. This year’s theme is Social Justice in the World
Today: Theory and Practice. Conference proceedings will be hosted
by the Canadian Institute for Peace, Justice and Security and the
University
of Regina, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. All conference
activities
will take place on the campus of the University of Regina. Major
sub-themes
of the conference include: Justice and Indigenous Peoples, Justice and
Policing, Social Capital and Civil Society, Distributive and Procedural
Justice,
Justice in Educational Settings, as well as Justice and Intergroup
Relations. The actual submissions and panel organizers, of
course, will shape the
precise contents of the program. We have received many paper and
symposia
abstracts…it looks like conference attendees may have a hard time
trying
to pick and choose between all of the superb sessions available. In
addition,
we are extremely lucky to have four eminent keynote speakers; Chief
Justice
McLaughlin (Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Canada), Professor Faye
Crosby
(President ISJR), Professor Kees van den Bos (Utrecht University), and
Judge
Morin (Saskatchewan Provincial Court Judge).
Here are a few important pieces of information for your conference
planning:
Deadline for submissions: February 15
Deadline for earlybird registration: April 30
Conference dates: June 30-July 3
Travel agent: Misty McKnight
ph: 1.306.569.2262 or email at
mmcknight@carlsonwagonlit.ca
Registration fees (in US dollars) are as follows:
Early registration, includes dinner: $230
Early registration, without dinner: $200
Full registration, includes dinner: $280
Full registration, without dinner: $250
Student registration, includes dinner: $60
Student registration, without dinner: $30
Complete information about the Conference including venue, program,
registration, and contribution information can be found on the
Conference website at
www.uregina.ca/isjr . The Canadian Institute of Peace, Justice and
Security along with
the University of Regina are honoured to be hosting the International
Justice Conference in 2004. We look forward to having you join us.
Katherine Owens
Conference Administrator
ISJR Social Justice Conference
Campion College, University of Regina
Regina SK S4S 0A2
Ph (306)359-1241
katherine.owens@uregina.ca
Katherine
Owens
Conference organizer
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Applications
Applications to join ISJR are
very welcome and may be addressed by e-mail to
Faye Crosby ( fjcrosby@ucsc.edu
) including your curriculum vitae and a list of publications.
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Members'
News
Susan
Clayton and Susan Opotow have recently published the edited volume,
Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological
Significance of Nature (MIT Press, 2003). The book collects
empirical work from psychologists and other social scientists that
examines the connections between identity and nature. Three sections
examine environmental identity at different levels of social influence:
The first focuses on the individual experience of nature; the second
looks at how the social and community context mediates this
experience; and the third examines the way social groups position
themselves
with regard to environmental issues.
Themes of
justice are woven throughout the book, particularly in the first
section, where several authors examine the extent to which nature is
given moral standing and the consequent perception that people have a
responsibility to protect it; and the third section, where authors
discuss the ways in which group identities affect perceptions of
justice in environmental conflicts.
Environmental
issues appear to engage moral reasoning and beliefs in a
unique and powerful way. This volume illustrates the impact of identity
on beliefs about what is fair or moral in the specific context of
environmental issues. An awareness of environmental identity can reveal
the different ways that people understand and respond to the
psychological and moral significance of nature.
Faye
Crosby is happy to announce the publication of my latest
book. Yale
Press is the publisher, and the title is: Affirmative Action is
Dead;
Long Live Affirmative Action. The book seeks to unravel the
mystery
of why affirmative action, a rather unexceptional policy that promotes
justice, is not fully embraced by justice-loving Americans.
From Linda
Skitka: ISJR Members may be interested in the following special
issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Review that was devoted
to new and current directions in justice theorizing and research
(Volume 7, Number 4, 2003). The issue was guest edited by Linda
Skitka and Faye Crosby. The following articles appeared in the
issue:
Skitka, L.J.
& Crosby, F. J. Trends in the Social Psychological Study of Justice.
Skitka, L.
J. Of Difference Minds: An Accessible Identity Model of Justice
Reasoning.
Clayton, S.
& Opotow, S. Justice and Identity: Changing Perspectives on What is
Fair.
Hafer, C.
L. & Olson, J. M. An Analysis of Empirical Research on the Scope of
Justice.
Darley, J.
M. & Pittman, T. S. The Psychology of Compensatory and Retributive
Justice.
Exline, J.
J., Worthington, E. L., Jr., Hill, P., & McCullough, M. E.
Forgiveness
and Justice: A Research Agenda for Social and Personality Psychololgy.
Tyler, T.
R. & Blader, S. L. The Group Engagement Model: Procedural Justice,
Social Identity, and Cooperative Behavior.
Crosby, F.
J. & Franco, J. L. Connections between the Ivory Tower and the
Multicolored World: Linking Abstract Theories of Social Justice to the
Rough and Tumble of Affirmative Action.
Schroeder,
D. A., Steel, J. E., Woodell, A. J., & Bembenek, A. F. Justice
within
Social Dilemmas.
Lerner, M.
J. The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they
Lost
It, and Why They May Not Find It Again.
Kees van
den Bos has recently received a VICI innovational research grant
from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his
research
proposal entitled "On reasoning and having hunches about right and
wrong:
An integrative social psychological examination of rationalist and
intuitionist
models of social justice." With this grant ($ 1,250,000, which is about
$ 1,500,000 U.S.) a five-year research project will be financed,
involving
4 PhD projects (which are paid positions in the Netherlands), a
postdoc,
and an assistant professor. The project will entail social
psychological
studies on how people form justice judgments.
From Kjell
Törnblom :
I.
Research in progress at The Center for Justice Research University of
Skövde, Sweden
(1) Conceptions about the fairness of social resource allocation are
presumably based both on the distribution and on the procedure. Two
studies focus on the possible interaction between the distribution and
the procedure as well as on the relative importance of each in the
context of fairness judgements of social resource allocation. The
following factors are of
particular interest: the social relationship between provider and
recipient,
the mode of resource transaction, type of resource, and resource
valence.
(2) People assess and respond to events in terms of dimensions
other than fairness (expectational and behavioral modalities), e.g.,
preferential, normative, and intentional. Inconsistencies may occur
among these modal responses. What are the cognitive, affective, and
behavioral ramifications of the different patterns of conflict among
modal responses? How is the
degree of consistency among modalities affected by various factors
(e.g.,
the social relationship between the actors, the severity of the
situation,
etc.)? How and to what extent are justice conceptions affected by modal
inconsistencies?
(3) Another project focuses on the relationship between fairness and
cooperation in public good social dilemmas, i..e., the impact of
various goals on people’s cooperative behavior and fairness judgments
in a social dilemma.
(4) Within the area of procedural justice, one of the research
projects investigates the role of instrumental vs. relational concerns
in reactions to an authority's decisions. Specifically, we investigate
whether the salience of instrumental vs. relational concerns moderate
the
effects of outcome favorability and procedural fairness on reactions to
decisions.
(5) Research on stress and justice is aimed at exploring whether the
experience of a stressful event initiated by an authority is moderated
by information about the authority's (fair or unfair) interpersonal
behavior towards the recipient. We propose that information about an
authority's interpersonal behavior will not only affect the recipient's
reported stress, but also the physiological basis of the stress
experience.
Members of the Center: Kjell Törnblom, Riel Vermunt, Daniel Eek,
Tomas Ståhl, Ali Kazemi, Karin Kronberg, Elisabeth Olofsson,
Yiannis Koutalos, Yvette Peeters.
Center secretary: Ingvar Karlsson ( ingvar.karlsson@ibv.his.se
).
II.
Summing up the conference at Skövde, 2002 - Mementos from the 2002
Social Justice Conference in Sweden.
The IXth Social Justice Conference was hosted by the University of
Skövde in Sweden, June 17 - 20, 2002, and organized by Ingvar
Karlsson,
Kjell Törnblom and Riël Vermunt. Skövde is a small town
located between the two largest lakes in Sweden - Vänern and
Vättern
- and is an old military center that once hosted three regiments. Today
the town is mostly known in its capacity as one of the Volvo
headquarters.
The conference was held on campus, conveniently reached by a 5 minute
walk
from the hotels and the railway station.
We were very pleased to have four pioneers within the justice area
as invited plenary speakers: Morton Deutch ("Social Justice and Social
Conflict"), Melvin Lerner ("Reflections on a Life of Studying
Justice"),
Leo Montada ("Is Justice Research Useful?"), and Elaine Hatfield
("Reflections
on a Life of Studying Justice"). Elaine was accompanied by and shared
her
session with her collaborator, historian Richard Rapson .
Each plenary speaker was honored by truly eloquent dedications authored
and performed by Karen Hegtvedt (for Mort), by Wil Arts (for Mel), by
Gerold Mikula (for Leo), and by Willie Jasso (for Elaine).
About a hundred visitors and participants came from Australia, Britain,
Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, France, USA, Israel, and
other nations. (There were 16 different flags on the tables at the
dinner party.) Over 70 papers were presented, organized into 22
symposia. Interesting presentations were held about various topics
like: Discrimination and Inequality, Justice In the Mid-East, the
Motivational Foundations of Justice Reasoning, the Belief In a Just
World, Norm Violation and Justice, Gender and the Justice of Earnings,
Functions of the Justice Motive, Social Exclusion and Injustice, Change
and Justice, Social Justice and Conflicting Social Representations of
Environmental Hazards, Justice In Social Dilemmas, Procedural Justice,
Social Welfare and the Experience of Justice, Vulnerable Groups, and
Consequences for Empirical Research of Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Social Justice.
A dinner party was held at a hotel on the northwest hillside of
Skövde, with a great view over the city and the landscape. The
dinner was preceded by an outdoors trip to the neighboring town of Hjo
(pronounced “you”,
which of course is a golden opportunity for the tourist bureau of Hjo
to post roadside signs saying “I love Hjo”). It is a beautiful
wooden
town nearby Lake Vättern, on which we made a trip with Sweden's
last
fully functioning steam ship "SS Trafik". After dinner, a rock group
was
engaged to play some of their swinging good time music. One of their
pieces
was Big Joe Turners’ “Flip, Flop and Fly”. Unfortunately, a too high
volume
for people's eardrums made the word “fly” into a trademark for the
evening,
i.e., most people flew away from the scene early to make continuing
conversations possible.
As everybody already knows by now, Faye Crosby was elected to succeed
Leo Montada as the President of ISJR. At the General Meeting, Karen
Hegdvedt and Kees van den Bos were elected as treasurer and secretary,
respectively, and Dahlia Moore agreed to take on the editorship of the
Newsletter.
Some people stayed a couple of days after the conference to experience
our traditional Swedish Midsummer holiday celebrations, including
Maypole, folk, and aquavit.
We wish to thank everybody who came to Skövde for making this
conference into such an informative, warm and interesting experience.
Some of the pictures taken at the conference are included.
We're looking forward to meeting again in Regina this summer.
Best regards,
Ingvar Karlsson, Kjell Törnblom, Riël Vermunt
Information about the conference is still available on the web site , and information
about isjr@ibv.his.se
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