Everyday Justice: Responsibility and the Individual in Japan and the United States. (book reviews)

Conventional wisdom argues that the normative issues of justice are resolved by philosophical or religious discussion, not by factual descriptions of what people are like or what they actually believe. But, as these two well-presented and thought-provoking books show, this belittles the contribution of social psychology to the contemporary normative debate. Philosophical accounts of justice make very specific assumptions about human needs, beliefs, and motivations, which social psychology can test.

The centrality of such assumptions about motivations and beliefs in Western ...

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