Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of self-affirmation theory. Self-
affirmation theory asserts that the overall goal of the self-system is to protect an image of its …

The objective of this systematic review of studies using self-affirmation manipulations was to
identify research gaps and provide information to guide future research. We describe study …

Matters of perceived fairness and justice run deep in the workplace. Workers are concerned
about being treated fairly by their supervisors; managers generally are interested in treating …

Trust is critical for organizations, effective management, and efficient negotiations, yet trust
violations are common. Prior work has often assumed trust to be fragile—easily broken and …

Construal level theory (CLT) offers a rich and rigorous conceptual model of how the context
shapes mental representations and subsequent outcomes. The theory has generated new …

I consider the interactive effects of procedural fairness and outcome favorability on people's
reactions to organizational decisions. When the dependent variable consists of employees' …

Tree induction and logistic regression are two standard, off-the-shelf methods for building
models for classification. We present a large-scale experimental comparison of logistic …

In the few years since the appearance of Affective Events Theory (AET), organizational
research on emotions has continued its accelerating pace and incorporated many elements …

Over the past 20 years, a large body of laboratory and field research has shown that, when
people perform in settings in which their group is negatively stereotyped, they may …

Recently researchers have debated the relevance of stereotype threat to the workplace.
Critics have argued that stereotype threat is not relevant in high stakes testing such as in …