Psychological Perspectives on Justice

Explores how the distribution of costs and benefits determine our intuition about fairness to provide a balanced look at the psychology of justice.

1. Introductory remarks; Part I. Psychological Perspectives: 2. Equality as a decision heuristic David Messick; 3. Two insights occasioned by attempts to pin down the equity formula Richard Harris; 4. Judgments of justice Maya Bar-Hillel and Menahem Yaari; Part II. Economic Perspectives: 5. Justice in organised groups: comparing the self-interest and social identity perspectives Tom Tyler and Robyn Dawes; 6. Heuristics and biases in equity judgments: a utilitarian approach Jonathan Baron; 7. Tradeoffs in fairness and preference judgments Lisa Ordoñez and Barbara Mellers; 8. Information, fairness, and efficiency in bargaining Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein; Part III. Variations in Perspectives of Justice: 9. The unfolding of justice: a developmental perspective on reward allocations Colleen Moore, Sheri E. Hembree, and Robert D. Enright; 10. Of Ants and Grasshoppers: the political psychology of allocating scarce resources Linda Skitka and Philip E. Tetlock; 11. Liberal and conservative approaches to justice: conflicting psychopolitical perspectives Philip E. Tetlock and Gregory Mitchell; Part IV. Policy Perspectives: Justice and the allocation of scarce resources Jon Elster; 12. Models of equity in public risk Rakesh Sarin; 13. Fairness of distributions of risks with applications to Antarctica Ivy Broder and Robin Keller; Part V: Postscript.