Not fair for me! The influence of personal relevance on social justice inferences

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 699-705

  Ham, Jaap ^a   van den Bos, Kees ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Explicit judgments; Justice; Morality; Personal relevance; Spontaneous inferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549138680     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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