Procedural Justice and Status: Status Salience as Antecedent of Procedural Fairness Effects

The current article explores status as an antecedent of procedural fairness effects (the findings that perceived procedural fairness affects people's reactions, e.g., their relational judgments). On the basis of the literature, the authors proposed that salience of the general concept of status...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 2002-12, Vol.83 (6), p.1353-1361
Main Authors: van Prooijen, Jan-Willem, van den Bos, Kees, Wilke, Henk A. M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Affect - physiology
Analysis of Variance
Behavior
Decision Making - physiology
Experiments
Fairness
Female
Human
Humans
Hypotheses
Judgment
Judgment - physiology
Justice
Male
Psychology
Social Class
Social Justice - psychology
Social psychology
Social status
Socioeconomic factors
Students - psychology
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Summary:The current article explores status as an antecedent of procedural fairness effects (the findings that perceived procedural fairness affects people's reactions, e.g., their relational judgments). On the basis of the literature, the authors proposed that salience of the general concept of status leads people to be more attentive to procedural fairness information and that, as a consequence, stronger procedural fairness effects should be found. In correspondence with this hypothesis, Experiment 1 showed stronger procedural fairness effects on people's relational treatment evaluations in a status salient condition compared with a control condition. Experiment 2 replicated this effect and, in further correspondence with the hypothesis, showed that status salience led to increased cognitive accessibility of fairness concerns. Implications for the psychology of procedural justice are discussed.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1353