How self-relevant is fair treatment? Social self-esteem moderates interactional justice effects

Social Justice Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-419

  De Cremer, David ^a,d   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^b   Van Dijke, Marius ^c   Bos, Arjan E R ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d Dept Economic and Social Psychol ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective commitment; Interactional justice; Social self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544284959     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-004-2059-x     Document Type: Article

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