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 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.
van Prooijen
Jan-Willem
JW
Department of Social Psychology, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. jw.van.prooijen@psy.vu.nl
van den Bos
Kees
K
Wilke
Henk A M
HA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D012923:Social Class; D012935:Social Justice / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology