The biological bases of unfairness: Neuroimaging evidence for the distinctiveness of procedural and distributive justice

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-151

  Dulebohn, James H ^a   Conlon, Donald E ^b   Sarinopoulos, Issidoros ^a   Davison, Robert B ^b   McNamara, Gerry ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Distributive justice; Fairness; fMRI; Justice; Neuroimaging; Procedural justice; Unfairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350316756     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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