caa a22 4500 606241612 CHVBK 20210128101314.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11211-015-0255-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11211-015-0255-5 A New Look at Individual Differences in Perceptions of Unfairness: The Theory of Maximally Unfair Allocations in Multiparty Situations [Elektronische Daten] [Kimmo Eriksson, Ali Kazemi, Kjell Törnblom] Previous research has demonstrated that unfairness judgments of resource allocations become more complex when there are more than two recipients. In order to explain some of this complexity, we propose a set of psychological mechanisms that may underlie four different choices of maximally unfair resource allocations (MUA): Self-Single-Loser, Self-One-Loser-of-Many, Self-Single-Winner, and Self-One-Winner-of-Many. From this psychological theory, several predictions are derived and tested in vignette studies involving a total of 708 participants recruited online using MTurk. As predicted by our theory, (1) choices of MUA where there is a single loser were much more common when the allocated resource was of negative rather than positive valence, and (2) the amount of egoistic bias individuals exhibited when judging the unfairness in receiving a small rather than a large share in a non-extreme multi-party allocation was predicted by their choices of MUA. These findings suggest that an individual's choice of MUA reveals some generally relevant principles of how unfairness is perceived in multi-party allocations. This opens up new lines of inquiry, especially regarding research on social dilemmas and social value orientation. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Unfairness nationallicence Distributive justice nationallicence Inequality nationallicence Multi-party allocation nationallicence Egoistic bias nationallicence Eriksson Kimmo School of Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University, Box 883, 72123, Västerås, Sweden aut Kazemi Ali University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden aut Törnblom Kjell ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-12-01), 401-414 0885-7466 28:4<401 2015 28 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0255-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0255-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eriksson Kimmo School of Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University, Box 883, 72123, Västerås, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kazemi Ali University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Törnblom Kjell ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-12-01), 401-414 0885-7466 28:4<401 2015 28 11211