Justice research conflates individual standing motives with collective group-integrity motives

Evidence

As we argued above, it is important that justice researchers differentiate social motives emanating from concerns about one’s individual standing within the group from social motives originating from concern about the overall integrity, stability, and wellbeing of one’s social group. None of the relational models discussed above focus on the latter, for example, the influence of how group members as a whole are treated by the authorities or the organization in people’s procedural justice judgments and how such judgments might in turn affect their evaluations of the authorities and attachment to the organization. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2335

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how fairness frameworks that only track individual standing produce institutions blind to collective harm — e.g. procedural justice in organizations that handles individual grievances but never questions systemic treatment of whole subgroups.