Relying on accessibility experiences in procedural fairness judgments

Patrick A. Müller (), Rainer Greifeneder (), Dagmar Stahlberg () and Herbert Bless ()
Additional contact information
Patrick A. Müller: Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Postal: Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rainer Greifeneder: Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Postal: L 13, 15, D-68131 Mannheim
Dagmar Stahlberg: Lehrstuhl fuer Sozialpsychologie, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Postal: Seminargebaeude A5, D-68131 Mannheim
Herbert Bless: Mikrosoziologie und Sozialpsychologie Universität Mannheim, Postal: Seminargebäude A 5 D-68131 Mannheim

No 07-21, Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications from Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim

Abstract: This paper presents empirical evidence corroborating the idea that procedural justice judgments are not only based on the accessible content information about the procedure, but also on accessibility experiences that accompany the accession of content about the procedure. Four experiments support the hypothesis that people judge a selection procedure in accordance with their subjective experiences of ease or difficulty, that is fairer, the more difficult the recall of unfair aspects felt. The influence of the accessibility experience on the procedural justice judgment is hereby moderated by dispositional self-uncertainty (Experiment 2), experimentally induced uncertainty (Experiment 3) and accuracy motivation (Experiment 4). Implications for the conceptualization of procedural justice judgments are discussed.

Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2007-06-25
Note: This research was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFT) within the framework of German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP) and by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the Sonderforschungsbereich 504 at the University of Mannheim.
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:xrs:sfbmaa:07-21

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications from Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim Contact information at EDIRC., Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Carsten Schmidt ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).