On the subjective quality of social justice: the role of affect as information in the psychology of justice judgments |
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Authors: | van den Bos Kees |
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Institution: | Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. k.vandenbos@fss.uu.nl |
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Abstract: | This article argues that it is not uncommon for people forming justice judgments to lack information that is most relevant in the particular situation. In information-uncertain conditions, people may therefore construct justice judgments by relying on how they feel about the events they have encountered, and justice judgments may hence be strongly influenced by affect information. Findings show that in information-uncertain conditions, the affective states that people had been in prior and unrelated to the justice event indeed strongly influenced their justice judgments. These findings thus reveal that in situations of information uncertainty, people's judgments of justice can be very subjective, susceptible to affective states that have no logical relationship with the justice judgments they are constructing. Implications for the social psychology of justice and the literature on social cognition and affect are discussed. |
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