ABSTRACT
One of the central insights demonstrated by justice research is that people actively interpret their own experiences. The activity is illustrates by two types of responses that can occur in reaction to harm doing: the restoration of actual justice and the restoration of psychological justice by distorting the situation. The most extensive development of the idea of the psychological restoration of justice occurs within the literature on distributive injustice, particularly in the literature on equity theory. The two mechanisms outlines—behavioral and psychological—will restore the perceived balance between what people get and what they deserve. A crucial beginning to an analysis of behavioral reactions to injustice is an understanding of when people respond to injustice behaviorally and when they respond psychologically. The psychological denial of personal injustice is illustrates by comparisons between people's assessments of their personal experience of injustice and assessments of the injustice their respective group experiences.
