Peer versus authority as decision maker: are the demographics of the perceiver related to judgements of fairness?
In a role-playing study, 264 university students evaluated the fairness of procedures and outcomes used to punish a student for plagiarizing from a web site. Individuals reading the scenario gave the highest ratings of justice when the decision maker was a group of nonpeers (faculty), compared to when the decision maker was an individual or peer (student). Sex and self reported guilt of individuals reading the scenario also influenced their ratings of justice.
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Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211-0197, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012935:Social Justice