decision making in interpersonal context?
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Over the past two decades, psychologists have increasingly recognized the importance of people «s judgments about the fairness of their dealings with authorities and organizations. This recognition first centered on the fairness of the outcomes people received¦ that is, a concern for distributive justice (Deutsch, 1985; Homans, 1961). The dominant framework of distributive justice, equity theory (Adams, 1965; Walster, Berscheid, & Walster, 1973), inspired research on (a) how a decision maker attempts to create a fair outcome distribution such as giving raises to employees who perform the best or have been employed the longest (eg, see Leventhal, 1976, for a review), and (b) how people react to unfair outcome distributions (eg, see Greenberg, 1982, for a review). A similar focus on distributive justice is also found in the research on relative deprivation (Crosby, 1984; Martin, 1981).
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