To our benefit or at your expense? justice considerations in intergroup allocations of positive and negative resources

Social Justice Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-38

  Otten, Sabine ^a   Mummendey, Amélie ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Minimal group paradigm; Normative appropriateness; Positive negative asymmetry; Social discrimination; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042651184     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023274223181     Document Type: Article

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