Assimilation and contrast in organizational justice: The role of primed mindsets in the psychology of the fair process effect

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 866-880

  Van Den Bos, Kees ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Comparisons; Contrast; Fairness; Human judgement; Justice; Organizational behavior; Outcomes; Primes; Procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036741928     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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