A. Mellers / Jonathan Baron (eds.)

Psychological Perspectives on Justice

Herausgeber: Baron, Jonathan; Mellers, Barbara A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Justice is a central concern in everyday life; we are constantly confronted with situations that require us to assess the fairness of individuals' acts and institutional policies. These situations often involve difficult trade-offs between equality and efficiency, self-interest and cooperation, or short-term consumption and long-term savings. Psychological Perspectives on Justice explores our intuitions about fairness in the distribution of costs and benefits. Some of the chapters examine the extent to which individual behavior deviates from normative theories of justice, discussing competing theories such as utilitarianism and economic efficiency. Other chapters discuss the various rules that people use to make fair distributions, the motivation for people to conform to rules of fairness even when they conflict with self-interest, the differences between liberals and conservatives in their views of justice, and the rules that societies use to distribute or allocate scarce resources. The mixture of theoretical and applied perspectives provides a balanced look at the psychological underpinnings of justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780521431996
• ISBN-10: 0521431999
• Artikelnr.: 35450741

Inhaltsangabe

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.