Percepción de justicia y actitudes hacia inmigrantes

Research on justice has largely shown that individuals usually prefer to get worse but fair rather than more positive for them but unfair outcomes. The present research experimentally investigated the effects of the perception of justice on intergroup attitudes by manipulating the amount of resources assigned to native and immigrants proportionally to the number of each group in a given area. The justice condition matched the proportion of immigrants with the quantity of resources assigned to them. Conversely, in the injustice condition the proportion was not matched. Study 1 (N = 149) showed that participants assigned to the justice condition showed less prejudice and less support for social policies against immigrants than those assigned to the injustice condition. Study 2 (N = 82) replicated some of the results of Study 1 in a different place and also showed that justice enhances the preference for a pro-immigrant political party. The implications of these findings are discussed.