E. Allan Lind
Social Psychologist
Professor of Management,
Fuqua School of Business, Duke UniversitySpecial Professor of Social Conflict and Social Justice,
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Recent Papers and Publications
Social Psychology of Justice
I construct theory and conduct research on what people view as fair in their everyday lives. Much of my work has focused on judgments of procedural justice.
Business relationships and work teams.
I am one of several faculty members at the Fuqua School of Business researching the social and psychological dynamics of interpersonal relationships in organizations. A special focus of this work is the development of trust and interdependence in work teams.
Law and Law-Related Behavior.
I am conducting research on decisions to sue and on reactions to legal authority.
Recent Papers and Publications
Social conflict and social justice.
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Office Address:
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 USA
Office phone:
(+1) 919-660-7849.
The "fairness heuristic" and cooperative behavior.
I am conducting several field studies and laboratory experiments to test predictions of fairness heuristic theory. The theory states that people are very sensitive to the appearance of injustice when they decide whether to obey authorities and when they decide whether to forego their own interests for the greater good in relationships, organizations, and institutions to which they belong. The research supports the theory's predictions about the importance of fairness for positive social relations. See the paper "Social conflict and social justice".
Litigation and claiming.
I have conducted two studies on what makes people decide to initiate lawsuits and legal claims. The research shows that people who feel that they have been treated in an unfair or undignified fashion are far more likely to sue. For example, Jerald Greenberg and I recently completed a study of wrongful termination that showed that employees who feel that they were treated without dignity or respect at the time they were fired were more than twenty times more likely to file a claim against their former employer than were employees who felt they had been dismissed with dignity. An early paper from this project is available: "Litigation and claiming".
Ethnicity and authority.
I am conducting a series of studies that examine the role of ethnicity and culture in judgments of fairness and reactions to authority. You can find early papers from this project in Huo, Y. J., Smith, H., Tyler, T. R., and Lind, E. A. (1996). Superordinate identification, subgroup identification, and justice concerns: Is separatism the problem; is assimilation the answer? Psychological Science, 7, 40-45; and Lind, E. A., Huo, Y. J., and Tyler, T. R. (1994). ...And justice for all: Ethnicity, gender, and preferences for dispute resolution procedures. Law and Human Behavior, 18, 269-290. The research shows that people are more similar than previously thought in terms of what they view as fair, but it also shows that cross-ethnic relations can be difficult because people believe they are dissimilar.
I was born in Richmond, Virginia. I received my B.A. with High Honors from the University of Florida, and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining the Duke faculty I worked for the University of New Hampshire, the Federal Judicial Center, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the RAND Corporation, and the American Bar Foundation. Curriculum vita.
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