This article develops a unified framework, based on Rossi's factorial survey method, for
studying positive beliefs and normative judgments. The framework enables estimation of …

Humans form ideas of fairness, and they assess the fairness or unfairness of the rewards
that they and others receive. These ideas and assessments set in motion a large train of …

An abiding concern in social science is to achieve consistency in theoretical and empirical
accounts of what people think, what they say, and what they do. Strikingly, the study of …

The standard model of redistribution posits that attitudes towards redistribution are driven by
pure economic self-interest, such as current income. From a social-psychological …

In the study of distributive justice, there are two fundamental actors and three fundamental
quantities. The observer reflects on the situation of a rewardee. The observer perceives the …

This article develops a framework for studying individuals' ideas about what constitutes just
compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and …

Previous studies in sociological justice research have found mixed results on the gender
bias in justice evaluations of earnings. Some studies report a just gender pay gap favoring …

The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort,
theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification …

Every day humans experience a wide range of emotions—the joy of the sunrise, the
disappointment of a nonexistent closed-form expression, the consolation of a beautiful …

Where do ideas of justice come from? How unjust are departures from perfect justice? What
is the place of justice in the larger world of sociobehavioral processes? George C. Homans …