van den Bos Kees
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003 Sep;85(3):482-98. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.482.
This article argues that it is not uncommon for people forming justice judgments to lack information that is most relevant in the particular situation. In information-uncertain conditions, people may therefore construct justice judgments by relying on how they feel about the events they have encountered, and justice judgments may hence be strongly influenced by affect information. Findings show that in information-uncertain conditions, the affective states that people had been in prior and unrelated to the justice event indeed strongly influenced their justice judgments. These findings thus reveal that in situations of information uncertainty, people's judgments of justice can be very subjective, susceptible to affective states that have no logical relationship with the justice judgments they are constructing. Implications for the social psychology of justice and the literature on social cognition and affect are discussed.
本文认为，在形成正义判断时，人们缺乏特定情境中最相关信息的情况并不罕见。因此，在信息不确定的情况下，人们可能会依靠对所遇到事件的感受来构建正义判断，正义判断可能会因此受到情感信息的强烈影响。研究结果表明，在信息不确定的情况下，人们之前处于的与正义事件无关的情感状态确实会强烈影响他们的正义判断。因此，这些研究结果揭示，在信息不确定的情况下，人们对正义的判断可能非常主观，容易受到与他们正在构建的正义判断没有逻辑关系的情感状态的影响。文中还讨论了这些结果对正义社会心理学以及社会认知与情感文献的启示。
