Research on distributive justice indicates that preschool-age children take issues of equity and merit into account when distributing desirable items, but that they often prefer to see desirable items allocated equally in third-party tasks. By contrast, less is known about the development of retributive justice. In a study with 4- to 10-year-old children (n = 123) and adults (n = 93), we direct...

Research on distributive justice indicates that preschool-age children take issues of equity and merit into account when distributing desirable items, but that they often prefer to see desirable items allocated equally in third-party tasks. By contrast, less is known about the development of retributive justice. In a study with 4-10-year-old children (n = 123) and adults (n = 93), we directly c...

There is a growing concern in most countries to address the problem of inequities in health-care within the context of financial restraints on the public purse and the realities of health professions that are influenced strongly by the economic priorities of free-market economies. Dental professionals, like other health professionals, are well aware that the public expects oral health-related s...

John Rawls rejects prejusticial conceptions of distributive desert on the grounds that such conceptions are immoral and impractical. Prejusticial understandings of desert claim that desert can be understood prior to and independently of justice in social institutions, and take legitimate desert claims to provide standards for evaluating social arrangements. Some philosophers have interpreted Ra...

Knowledge sharing is an important variable in the knowledge management literature emphasizing the importance of social factors. Recent research has revealed that social-psychological and sociological factors are imperative to knowledge sharing. The theory of reasoned action (TRA) was designed to model how any specified behavior under volitional control is produced by beliefs, attitudes, and int...

this study was conducted to examine the­ relationship between organizational  justice and social capital in the telecommunication company of mianeh in 1391 that lasted one year. in this study, organizational justice as one of the major factors underlying the creation of social capital, has been studied in three dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice), and...

Investigation of neural and cognitive processes underlying individual variation in moral preferences is underway, with notable similarities emerging between moraland risk-based decision-making. Here we specifically assessed moral distributive justice preferences and non-moral financial gambling preferences in the same individuals, and report an association between these seemingly disparate form...

In recent years, the underlying IT growth trends of the 1990s underwent a reversal as the new century dawned. These labor market changes have been reflected in the changing nature of employment. Distributive justice theory suggests employees’ perceptions of the fairness of the outcomes that are received are based on the employees’ inputs. We examine IT professionals’ perceptions of job stabilit...