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SUBMITTER: Arvanitis A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4990720 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arvanitis Alexios A Hantzi Alexandra A
Frontiers in psychology 20160819
Equity theory approaches justice evaluations based on ratios of exchange inputs to exchange outcomes. Situations are evaluated as just if ratios are equal and unjust if unequal. We suggest that equity ratios serve a more fundamental cognitive function than the evaluation of justice. More particularly, we propose that they serve as causal schemas for exchange outcomes, that is, they assist in determining whether certain outcomes are caused by inputs of other people in the context of an exchange p ...[more]