Social justice and the experience of emotion / Russell Cropanzano, Jordan H. Stein, Thierry Nadisic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Justice-relevant cognitions as a cause of affect -- Justice and the moral emotions -- Justice, the self, and affect -- Mood and emotion as causes of justice -- Emotional regulation : display rules and terror management -- Conclusion.

This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology. Other areas included are management, personality and evolutionary psychology. The book includes coverage of relevant philosophical positions from Aristotle and Rawls. The goal of this book is to familiarize the reader with the rich tradition of conceptual models explaining the association between justice and emotion. It will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and practitioners in industrial organizational psychology, social psychology, management and business ethics.