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Sunny Days or Gray Skies: The Effect of Emotion on Fairness Behavior

Previous research has identified significant links between affective states (moods and emotions) and normatively unrelated judgments. The current fairness literature has little understanding on how an individual’s affect influences their fair behavior and has recently turned to exploring affect as a predictor of manager’s fair behavior. We explore how positive and negative affect influence managers’ self-reports of their procedural, interpersonal, and informational fairness across two studies. In addition, we examine how positive and negative affect influence exhibited procedural, interpersonal, and informational fairness in a scenario study (Study 1) and a recall task (Study 2). Although both positive and negative affect influence self-reports of fairness, consistent with previous findings, exhibited fair behavior is primarily influenced by negative affect. These findings make an important contribution to both the fairness literature and the affect literature by uncovering and explaining an important pre...