Power and Justice in Intergroup Relations

The fair process effect in taxation: the roles of procedural fairness, outcome favorability and outcome fairness in the acceptance of tax authority decisions

“…The findings of the present study are in line with Cohen (1986), who argued that where the rules of procedural fairness are violated but an outcome is favorable, people notice injustice but do not take action that could adversely alter their privileged position. This explains the observed difference in levels of acceptance of a binding decision for an individually favorable outcome, despite respondents' prior accurate distinctions between fair and unfair procedures.…”

Psychology and Justice

“…Although this question has received some attention from other disciplines (Gurr, 1970;Hirschman, 1970;Moore, 1978), psychologists have been slow to tackle it (but see theoretical discussions in Cohen, 1986;Deutsch, 1974;Fine, 1979).…”

“…In order to understand better when action will be taken to redress a perceived injustice, we must realize that injustice often exists in the context of relations between groups, and it is essential to examine the nature of the power relations between those groups (Cohen, 1986). Physical force is only one of several types of power that can affect reactions to injustice.…”

The Effects of Leader Fairness and Pay Outcomes on Superior/Subordinate Relations1

“…A self-interest model (Lind & Tyler, 1988) would argue that members will support a just social system because it is in their own best long-range interests to do so, despite the receipt of any particular outcome-favorable or unfavorable. On the other hand, Cohen (1986) argues that while recipients of high rewards in an unjust system may not like the injustice, since they benefit from the system they will continue their acquiescence to the injustice. To the extent that both lines of argument apply to leaders as well as to social systems, the results of this study tend to provide support for Lind and Tyler's argument, while Greenberg (1987a) advanced his results as giving support to Cohen's position.…”