This study provides an empirical assessment of theories of rape that suggest that conditions of poverty and inequality account for differences in rates of rape among communities in the United States. To compensate for problems of statistical unreliability, 1980 data for 88 Standard Metropolitan...

Five studies demonstrate that employees’ trust in management influences the form of the interactive effect of outcome favorability and procedural fairness on employees’ attitudes and behavioral intentions. When trust is high, employees respond particularly negatively when outcome...

A central tenet of organizational justice theory is that people prefer decisions to be made with higher than with lower procedural fairness. The results of five studies unearthed a boundary condition for this general tendency. People who experienced non-contingent success had less of a desire to...

The regulatory focus theory offers a well-developed framework to explain the motives, beliefs, and behaviors that dictate whether an entrepreneurial venture will succeed. The aim of the essay is to provide a conceptual framework accounting for entrepreneurial success. Individuals may engage in...