Justice judgments AS complex psychocultural constructions: An equity-based heuristic for mapping two- and three-dimensional fairness representations in perceptual space

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-73

  Powell, Lawrence Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Culture; Equity; Fairness; Justice; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144300171     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022104271426     Document Type: Article

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