Injustice and arousal
Injustice and arousal
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不公正和唤醒
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1988
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Barry Markovsky
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作者：
Barry Markovsky
公平和分配正义理论的核心假设是，奖励不公平会产生痛苦的感觉，这种感觉会激励人们努力减少所感知到的不公正。在这种情况下的生理唤醒将提供不公正痛苦的直接证据。到目前为止，没有这样的证据存在。在本研究中，获得了受试者的皮肤电导测量在工作报酬设置中接受公平或不公平分配。正如预期的那样，在薪酬过低和过高的条件下（相对于基线水平），唤醒会增强，而在刚刚支付的条件下则没有这种影响。研究人员还预测并发现，在不同的实验条件下，心率——更多的是身体活动的指标，而不是痛苦的指标——并没有区别。讨论了这些结果对理论发展和应用研究的意义。
Central to equity and distributive justice theories is the assumption that reward inequities produce feelings of distress and that such feelings motivate efforts to reduce the perceived injustice. Physiological arousal under such conditions would provide direct evidence of injustice distress. To date, no such evidence exists. In the present study, a skin conductance measure was obtained for subjects receiving either just or unjust allocations in a pay-forwork setting. As expected, heightened arousal occurred (relative to baseline levels) in underpay and overpay conditions, with no such effect in a just-pay condition. It was also predicted and found that heart rate—more an index of somatic activity than distress—did not discriminate among experimental conditions. The implications of these results for theoretical development and applied research are discussed.