Implicit Effects of Justice on Self-Identity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Johnson, Russell E.; Lord, Robert G.
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University System of Ohio; University of Akron
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0019298
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 681-695
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE; self-identity; IMPLICIT MEASURES; COOPERATION; theft

摘要

The authors provide one of the first tests of whether justice has effects at implicit or subconscious levels. By manipulating justice in a laboratory experiment, they found that the activation of interdependent and individual self-identities were higher when people experienced fairness and unfairness, respectively. Although these effects occurred at both implicit and explicit levels, they were stronger in the former case. These identity-based effects proved to be important because they mediated the effects of justice on trust and on cooperative and counterproductive behaviors. Implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.