ABSTRACT
Brockner and Wiesenfeld (1996) reviewed studies examining the interactive relationship between outcome favorability and process fairness, with many showing that high process fairness reduced the effect of outcome favorability on people’s willingness to support decisions, decision makers, and institutions relative to when process fairness was low. Subsequently, there have been many notable extensions of these findings. Some have increased the generalizability of the previous findings, for example, by extending the interaction effect to other contexts. Moreover, whereas the interaction effect previously was exhibited on various attitudinal and behavioral indicators of people’s willingness to support decisions, decision makers, and institutions, more recently it has been found on a different and important type of dependent variable: psychological strain.
