Abstract
The systematic study of the psychology of social decision-making procedures began with the work of John Thibaut, Laurens Walker, and their colleagues in the early 1970s. Thibaut and Walker in their 1975 book and in an earlier article with Stephen LaTour and Pauline Houlden (Thibaut, Walker, LaTour, & Houlden, 1974) first used the term procedural justice to refer to social psychological consequences of procedural variation, with particular emphasis on procedural effects on fairness judgments.1 Prior to that time, the study of justice as a topic in psychology had been concerned largely with distributive justice, that is, with fairness-oriented responses to outcomes rather than procedures. Our goal in this chapter is to describe the origins of procedural justice research.
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Lind, E.A., Tyler, T.R. (1988). Early Research in Procedural Justice. In: The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2115-4_2
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