On preferences and doing the right thing: Satisfaction with advantageous inequity when cognitive processing is limited

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 273-289

  van den Bos, Kees ^a   Peters, Susanne L ^a   Bobocel, D Ramona ^b   Ybema, Jan Fekke ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive busyness; Equity; Fairness; Justice; Preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645938630     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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