The presence of a jury is intended to keep criminal trials fair and objective, but sometimes jurors’ perceptions, biases, and beliefs in stereotypes affect verdicts. Defendant and juror characteristics such as social class and age, often lead to differing judgments and perceptions, but limited research has been done on the interaction between these characteristics. This study examines the effec...

Does an interpersonal fair treatment of patients with schizophrenia by their hospital psychiatrists improve patients’ intentions to take the antipsychotic medicine when leaving the hospital, long-term compliance and the perceived quality of medical treatment? 71 acutely ill in-patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and their doctors were included in this study. At hospital discharge patient...

Executive Summary This report presents the results of a research project comparing defendant perceptions of fairness in the Red Hook Community Justice Center (Red Hook) and a traditional centralized criminal court. Nearly 400 defendants, who were seen at either Red Hook or the traditional court in summer 2005, took part in a survey comparing their perceptions of the treatment they received. The...

We employ an experimental labour setting to study fairness in the division of gains from productive activity. The focus is on the impact of power structures on allocation decisions and on fairness perceptions. Two types of actors are involved in generating a gain, but only one of them contributes actively by completing a realeffort task. In three treatments, decision power to divide the gain is...

A core educational goal is to produce self-directed lifelong learners who have acquired or are able to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for their future professional workplace in a networked world. Constructivist and socio-constructivist theories of learning and instruction recommend using collaborative learning scenarios in all kinds of educational contexts in order to attain this go...

Five studies tested the idea that people are reluctant to make proplaintiff liability decisions when the plaintiffs evidence is based on naked statistical evidence alone. Students (n = 740) and experienced trial judges (M = 111) averaged fewer than 10% affirmative decisions of liability when a case was based on naked statistical evidence but averaged over 65% affirmative decisions based on othe...

One hundred seventy-nine undergraduate Ss took part in a study of the effects of instrumental and noninstrumental participation on distributive and procedural fairness judgments. In a goal-setting procedure, Ss were allowed voice before the goal was set, after the goal was set, or not at all. Ss received information relevant to the task, irrelevant information, or no information. Both preand po...

In modeling a concurrent system, fairness constraints are usually considered at a specific granularity level of the system, leading to many different variants of fairness: transition fairness, object/process fairness, actor fairness, etc. These different notions of fairness can be unified by making explicit their parametrization over the relevant entities in the system as universal quantificati...

This study analyzes the factors that enable Korea’s export companies, governments, and associations to effectively respond trade remedies represented by unilateral negotiation strategies. For this purpose, a research model was established through deductive theoretical extension of organizational behavior theory, which can be applied directly enterprises related organizations. According results,...

Purpose: this study aims to examine the impacts of price levels, high level vs. low level, associated a known brand an unknown over fairness perception, symbolism quality and purchase intention.Design/methodology/approach: one pre-experiment is conducted with 2 (high level) x (known brand) between-subjects design sample 152 jeans customers.Finding: results indicate that different levels knowled...