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This 2006 European Journal of Social Psychology article by David De Cremer and Steven L. Blader tests whether individual differences in the need to belong explain variation in responses to procedural fairness. Across three studies (scenario experiments and a field survey), the authors show that people high in dispositional need to belong are more sensitive to procedural fairness (voice): Study 1 (N=83) found stronger effects of voice on negative affect and self-evaluation for those high in need to belong; Study 2 (N=197 employees at a multinational health-care company) found voice predicted organizational identification more strongly among high-belonging individuals; Study 3 (N=73) showed high-belonging participants processed procedural information more systematically (sensitivity to argument strength) producing larger effects on perceived procedural fairness. The paper argues belongingness is a core motive underlying reactions to procedural justice and discusses implications and limits.
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10.1002/ejsp.290
European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 36, pp. 211–228 (2006)
Published online 1 December 2005; Received 13 February 2004; Accepted 15 May 2005.
David De Cremer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and Steven L. Blader (Stern School of Business, New York University, USA).
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), grant number 016.005.019.