Distributive Justice in Common-Bond and Common-Identity Groups

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-162

  Utz, Sonja ^a   Sassenberg, Kai ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

distributive fairness; egocentric bias; interpersonal attraction; social identity; social justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993746191     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430202005002542     Document Type: Article

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