Procedural justice research focuses on individual relational standing, not collective well-being

Evidence

Although we recognize the importance and the powerful impact of interpersonal treatment in people’s procedural fairness judgments and the subsequent effects of these judgments on the support, commitment, and cooperation that people exhibit toward their groups and authorities of the groups, in our view the focus of these models is predominantly interpersonal and relational in nature and mostly about fairness for an individual, despite their strong associations with social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986) and social categorization theory (Turner et al., 1987) in their theoretical formulation. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2335

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in trust and institutions — the relational self vs collective self distinction parallels their Milgrom law-merchant work on how trust institutions serve individual vs collective interests.