Good outcomes are more likely for me than you—Especially in a just world

We conducted two studies with the aim of testing the new idea that believing in a just world for the self (BJW-self) encourages unrealistic bias about attaining positive outcomes and avoiding negative ones, relative to similar others, and that this relation would be accentuated when individuals perceived they had control over outcomes. Both studies were conducted online and employed correlational, survey-type designs. Study 1 (N = 140) consisted...