ABSTRACT
In further examining the interactive relationship between process fairness and outcome favorability, this chapter addresses two closely related questions of considerable theoretical significance: (1) Why do outcome favorability and process fairness interact with each other? and (2) When is this interactive relationship more versus less likely to occur? Put differently, what factors mediate the interactive effect of outcome favorability and process fairness on people’s reactions, and what factors moderate the interactive relationship between outcome favorability and process fairness? Theory and research generated subsequent to the Brockner and Wiesenfeld (1996) review have addressed both of these important questions, and it is to these matters that attention is now directed.
