Bücher der Reihe Critical Issues in Social Justice

This book is the product of an intensive cooperation between psych- ogists and sociologists who study solidarity and prosocial behavior, and its fruits are briefly summarized in Chapter 1. Instead, researchers from both disciplines tend to ignore each other's work quite generally, and the work on prosocial and antisocial behavior is no exception.

The desegregation situation is the keynote theme of the following chapters. But the reader, perusing the essays with the situation in mind, should remember that the desegregation situation should not be inter preted literally.

We were both strongly influenced by Thibaut's insightful articulation of the importance to psychology of the concept of pro cedural justice and by his empirical work with Laurens Walker in reactions to legal institu demonstrating the role of procedural justice tions.

Significant developments within the past few years have made possible the publication of this rather large volume focusing on specific emotions of human experience, such as interest, joy, anger, distress, fear, shame, shyness, and guilt.

From July 16 through July 21, 1984 a group of American and West German scholars met in Marburg, West Germany to discuss their com mon work on the topic of justice in social relations. The result, we believe, is a work that represents the cutting edge of scholarly inquiry into the important matter of justice in social relations.

This book offers an extension and development of the framework of Social Resource Theory to new applications, including Quality of Life, Work Satisfaction, Interpersonal Relationships, Cognitive Development, Consumer Behavior, Cross-Cultural Behavior and more.

The publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Jus tice Studies.

We have organized the chapters with respect to what we think are two important themes: (1) behavioral and attitudinal reactions to (in) justice and (2) macrojustice.