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Requesting Rewards: A Study of Distributive Justice

Theo Herrmann

Diana Weindrich

Universitat Mannheim

Social psychological research on distributive justice is confined to the'how much' of reward allocation situations. This paradigm was elaborated byinvestigating verbal forms of reward claims in an experiment with 193 pupils aged 12 to 14. In so-called 'standard situations', speakers used simple 'E-requests' and speech ellipses (referred to the speaker's primary goal e.g. 'I'd like my 15 chips' or '15 chips please') to state their claims. In ambiguous 'non-standard' situations, more polite and complex request forms were manifested which were composed of justification and appeal clauses (e.g. 'We made an agreement that each of us gets something. I would like to have 15 chips too'). The findings are viewed as an initial contribution toward greater ecological validity in the social psychological area of distributive justice because real allocations take place in 'face-to-face' situations in which speech plays an important role.

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