The effects of group affiliation on third parties' justice perceptions

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Current Research in Social Psychology

ISSN

1088-7423

Volume

8

Issue

12

Publication Date

1-7-2003

Abstract

We investigated the justice perceptions of third parties, individuals who are not directly involved in a justice situation, either as the decision maker or the recipient of the justice outcome. Specifically, we examined the effects of two forms of in-group affiliation on third parties' justice perceptions: 1) affiliation of decision maker and guilty group of students, and 2) affiliation of third parties reading about the scenario with the decision maker and guilty group of students. In a scenario study, university students evaluated the fairness of a disciplinary situation used to punish a group of students for plagiarizing. Different results were found for fraternity vs. non-fraternity subjects, depending on whether the decision maker was affiliated with a fraternity or not and whether the decision maker was a group or individual.

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