TY - JOUR
AU - Corkran, Louise
AB - Examined the effects of "voice" (participating in allocation decision making by expressing one's own opinion about the preferred allocation) on responses to an inequitable allocation. In addition to Ss' (82 female undergraduates) presence or absence of voice, Exp I manipulated (a) whether the allocation made by a "decision maker" (a confederate) was or was not made biased (due to self-interest) and (b) whether the S did or did not learn that a "co-worker" believed the allocation to be inequitable. Exp II, with 61 female high school students, manipulated presence/absence of voice and involved only a self-interested decision maker. In both experiments, the impact of voice was mediated by knowledge about the co-worker's opinion. When Ss had no knowledge about the co-worker's opinion (Exp I) or knew that the co-workers's opinion coincided with the decision maker's allocation (Exp II), there was evidence for a "fair process effect": Voice Ss expressed greater satisfaction than those with no voice. (21 ref)
TI - Effects of \"voice\" and peer opinions on responses to inequity
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.37.12.2253
DA - 1979-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/effects-of-voice-and-peer-opinions-on-responses-to-inequity-hmMqhIxde0
SP - 2253
EP - 2261
VL - 37
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -