SOME TESTS OF THE SELF-INTEREST AND GROUP-VALUE MODELS OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICE - EVIDENCE FROM AN ORGANIZATIONAL APPEAL PROCEDURE

This study examined how outcome, appeal method, and group membership influenced judgments about procedural and distributive justice made by people who appealed parking violations using a university appeal procedure. It also compared two explanations for the effects of procedural justice. The results support the first explanation, the self-interest model of procedural justice, more than the second, the group-value model, though combining the two models provides the best explanation for some of the variables.