An integrative perspective on social justice: Distributive and procedural fairness evaluations of positive and negative outcome allocations

Social Justice Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-64

  Törnblom, Kjell Y ^a   Vermont, Kiel ^b  

^a Campus Box 105 ^*  (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Justice integration; Outcome valence; Procedural justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005718918     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023226307252     Document Type: Article

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