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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 October 2009
      24 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511552069
      9780521431996
      9780521089982
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552069
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.622kg, 362 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 364 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making
      Subjects:
      Applied Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Cognition
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    Series:
    Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making
    Subjects:
    Applied Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Cognition
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    Justice, equity, and fairness are central concerns of everyday life, whether we are assessing the fairness of individual acts, social programmes, or institutional policies. This book explores how the distribution of costs and benefits determine our intuition about fairness and why individual behaviour sometimes deviates from normative theories of justice. To make any comparison, one must first state how fair distributions of resources or burdens should be made. Here, competing theories, such as utilitarianism and economic efficiency, are discussed. The chapters cover many topics including an investigation of various rules and heuristics that people use to make fair distributions; the motivation for people to conform to rules of fairness even when they conflict with self-interest; differences between the views of liberals and conservatives; societal rules for the distribution or allocation of critical or scarce resources; and implications for public policy. This mixture of theoretical and applied perspectives provides a balanced look at the psychology of justice.

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    "The present tightly edited volume provides innovative and rigorous additions to this growing body of theoretical and empirical work....although the present volume clearly illustrates the usefulness of a behavioral decision theory in the study of justice, its greatest contribution lies in demonstrating how social goals and strategies, such as the pursuit of justice and fairness influence judgments and decisions about the allocation of valued resources." Terry L. Boles and Charles G. McClintock, Contemporary Psychology

    "This edited volume is a splendid introduction to an important set of psychological studies in normative reasoning....These studies, and some of their implications, should indeed be grist for an ethicist's preferred theory of moral behavior." Ethics

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