TY - JOUR
T1 - Framing effects in justice perceptions
T2 - Prospect theory and counterfactuals
AU - Ganegoda, Deshani B.
AU - Folger, Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The majority of organizational justice research is underscored by the assumption that individuals form justice perceptions based on deliberate processing of information, using various justice judgment criteria. Taking an alternative view, this research examined how individuals form fairness perceptions in less deliberate ways-in particular, based on the way in which a decision outcome is framed. Drawing on prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979), we argued that decision outcomes that are framed in line with prospect theory's predictions would attenuate counterfactual processing because those outcomes are consistent with individuals' biased preferences. Drawing on fairness theory (Folger & Cropanzano, 1998, 2001), we argued that lower levels of counterfactual thinking increases the tendency for a decision to seem fair; therefore, framing a decision in a way that is consistent with a pre-existing bias could increase the extent to which it is perceived as fair. We found support for our hypotheses in two experiments.
AB - The majority of organizational justice research is underscored by the assumption that individuals form justice perceptions based on deliberate processing of information, using various justice judgment criteria. Taking an alternative view, this research examined how individuals form fairness perceptions in less deliberate ways-in particular, based on the way in which a decision outcome is framed. Drawing on prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979), we argued that decision outcomes that are framed in line with prospect theory's predictions would attenuate counterfactual processing because those outcomes are consistent with individuals' biased preferences. Drawing on fairness theory (Folger & Cropanzano, 1998, 2001), we argued that lower levels of counterfactual thinking increases the tendency for a decision to seem fair; therefore, framing a decision in a way that is consistent with a pre-existing bias could increase the extent to which it is perceived as fair. We found support for our hypotheses in two experiments.
KW - Counterfactuals
KW - Fairness theory
KW - Organizational justice
KW - Prospect theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85000762811&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.10.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0749-5978
VL - 126
SP - 27
EP - 36
JO - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
JF - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
ER -