But Do They Care About Fairness? The Dynamics of Preferential Treatment and Minority Interest

Autor: Rupert W. Nacoste
Rok vydání: 1987
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Zdroj: Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 8:177-191
ISSN: 1532-4834
0197-3533
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp0803_1
Popis: Why is it that increasing the number of women in an occupation through equal opportunity mechanisms causes potential beneficiaries of affirmative action to become less interested in the occupation? To account for that finding, it was hypothesized that not only the outcome of a selection process but the perceived fairness of the selection procedure affects the inferences beneficiaries make about an organization. Inferences of dispositions toward fairness in particular were expected to have a major influence on attraction to an organization. In response to a description of a situation in which they benefited from affirmative action selection, and in which selectee qualifications, the organization's history of discrimination, and the type of affirmative action procedure were manipulated, participants made inferences about an organization. The manipulations of qualifications and affirmative action procedure influenced perceived fairness of the procedure, dispositional inferences, and attraction to the organiz...
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