Procedural Justice

From a Social Psychological Perspective

Abstract

The article aimed to propose a psychological model of procedural justice and to contribute to understanding why citizens obey laws. The model consists of three psychological elements: procedural justice judgment, social identity, and ingroup behavior. They correspond to the basic psychological processes: cognition, affect, and behavior, respectively. The article also reported the study that examined the model using 540 sample of Kyoto citizens' survey data. The structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that the model had good fitness and that the relational aspect of procedural justice had an influential recurrent path with the social identity.