Abstract
The purpose of the present studies is to examine the relationship between unfair experiences in daily life and emotional reactions toward them.
These studies were also designed to replicate and extend Mikula (1986) and Clayton (1992). In the preliminary study, 45 Japanese subjects were asked to describe typical unfair events in their daily life. The data from this study was compared with that of Clayton's American subjects and those of Mikula's Austrian ones. In the main study, the subjects were presented with 35 unfair events selected from those of the preliminary study, and the subjects were asked to comment on them. The results of the correspondence analysis and the cluster analysis indicated that the subjects related various emotional reactions to the unfair events. In addition, implications of further research on justice and emotions were discussed.
