Self-esteem and outcome fairness: differential importance of procedural and outcome considerations.
Results of a survey of 222 detainees in Dutch jails and police stations showed that outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with high self-esteem were more strongly related to outcome considerations than to procedural considerations, whereas outcome-fairness judgments of individuals with low self-esteem were more strongly related to procedural considerations than to outcome considerations.  It was proposed that these differences were due to the fact that (a) procedures more strongly express a social evaluation than outcomes and (b) individuals with low self-esteem are more concerned with social evaluations than individuals with high self-esteem.  The implications of the results for other individual-differences factors and other populations than detainees are discussed.
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Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. vermunt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
van Knippenberg
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van Knippenberg
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Blaauw
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D011287:Prejudice; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior