Cognitive Processes Involved in Justice Sensitivity: Selective Information Search
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| Title: | Cognitive Processes Involved in Justice Sensitivity: Selective Information Search |
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| Authors: | Baumert, Anna, Gollwitzer, Mario, Schmitt, Manfred |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Subject Terms: | Soziale Wahrnehmung, Gerechtigkeit, Gerechtigkeitsempfinden, Gerechtigkeitsgefühl, Justice Sensitivity, allocation principles, belief in a just world, social cognition |
| Time: | 150 |
| Description: | Correlational studies have repeatedly shown that justice sensitivity is linked with stronger emotional and behavioral reactions following an unjust event. The cognitive processes that transmit these effects are still largely unknown. The present paper investigates whether people high in justice sensitivity differ from people low in justice sensitivity in how they select information when required to make a justice judgment. Ninety-six students read one of two scenarios about an unfair allocation of money. Afterwards they were asked to pick from a list of questions that were relevant to only one of the scenarios. Participants high in justice sensitivity picked more relevant questions than people low in justice sensitivity. This effect does not reflect a motivated bias to detect injustice. Results suggest that a variable that we have named "selective information search' is part of the cognitive processes that transform justice sensitivity into behavior. |
| Document Type: | report |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | Berichte aus der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral", Nr. 163, ISSN 1430-1148; Berichte aus der Arbeitsgruppe "Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Moral";163; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/384; http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.9269 |
| DOI: | 10.23668/psycharchives.9269 |
| Availability: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/384 https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-8953 https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.9269 |
| Rights: | openAccess ; PsyDok License ; https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8130 |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.C82F34D9 |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Correlational studies have repeatedly shown that justice sensitivity is linked with stronger emotional and behavioral reactions following an unjust event. The cognitive processes that transmit these effects are still largely unknown. The present paper investigates whether people high in justice sensitivity differ from people low in justice sensitivity in how they select information when required to make a justice judgment. Ninety-six students read one of two scenarios about an unfair allocation of money. Afterwards they were asked to pick from a list of questions that were relevant to only one of the scenarios. Participants high in justice sensitivity picked more relevant questions than people low in justice sensitivity. This effect does not reflect a motivated bias to detect injustice. Results suggest that a variable that we have named "selective information search' is part of the cognitive processes that transform justice sensitivity into behavior. |
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| DOI: | 10.23668/psycharchives.9269 |