Procedural Satisfaction Matters -Procedural Fairness Does Not: AnExperiment Studying the Effects ofProcedural Judgments on OutcomeAcceptance

By reporting data from a laboratory experiment, we provide clear evidencethat people value procedures apart from their eects on consequences.We implement a game with one proposer who has distributive power over apie and four responders who can invest in resistance against the proposer'sdemand. The proposer is appointed by the use of one of two feasible appointmentprocedures. We elicit participants' preferences and fairness evaluationsover both procedures and study whether responders' resistance against variousdemands are aected by their procedural judgments.[...]