Outcome Favorability, Procedures, and Individualism-Collectivism in Procedural Justice Perceptions

Abstract

Most justice researchers have defined outcomes and procedural

characteristics, two key determinants of procedural justice perceptions,

in a limited way. In addition, cultural values have been mostly ignored

in previous procedural justice research. In this article we present new

conceptualizations of outcomes and procedures and delineate how

individualism-collectivism interacts with outcomes and procedural

characteristics to determine procedural justice perceptions. In so doing,

we contend that because of different information-processing styles and

contrasting preference of behavioral styles between individualists and

collectivists, procedural justice perceptions are shaped differently. A

cross-cultural perspective on procedural justice presented here calls for

more future research on different psychological dynamics of procedural

justice perceptions across cultural values.