The following is a list of selected lab publications. Student authors indicated by †.
Journal articles
Bobocel, D. R., & Brockner, D. R. (2024). Application of justice theory to address social issues: Introduction to the special issue (PDF). Organizational Psychology Review, 14(2), 282-287.
Brockner, J., & Bobocel, D. R. (2024). How theory and research in organizational justice can help to address organizational and social issues (PDF). Organizational Psychology Review, 14(2), 288-306.
†Mu, F., Shen, W., & Bobocel, D. R., & †Barron, A. H. (2024). Investigating gendered reactions to manager mistreatment: Testing the presumed role of prescriptive stereotypes (PDF). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(5), 720-740.
†Brienza, J. P., †Dorfman, A., & Bobocel, D. R. (2024). Mind the gap: Wise reasoning attenuates gender pay gap scepticism in men (PDF). European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(1), 237–250.
†Marques, T., Ramos, S., Patient, D., & Bobocel, D. R. (2023). Harnessing the potential of older workers through relationships at work: Social support, feedback, and performance (PDF). Work, Aging, and Retirement, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waad016.
Francesco, S., Patient, D. Diehl, M-R., Bobocel, D. R. (2021). Thank you for the bad news: Reducing cynicism in highly identified employees during adverse organizational change. (PDF). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95, 90-130.
Bobocel, D. R. (2021). Current directions in organizational justice (PDF). Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science: Special Issue on IO Psychology in Canada, 2, 98-105.
†Holt, L., Bobocel, D. R., & †Chen, V. (2021).Delivering bad news fairly: Higher construal level promotes interactional justice enactment through perspective taking (PDF). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(6), 708-725.
†Carter, A., Bobocel., D. R., & Brockner, J. (2020). When to explain why or how it happened: Tailoring accounts to fit observers' construal level (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26, 158-170.
†Gevaux, N.S., Nilsen, E. S., Bobocel, D. R., & †Gault, S. F. (2020). Children’s reactions to inequality: Associations with empathy and parental teaching of just world beliefs (PDF).Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 70, 101-189.
†Mu, F., & Bobocel, D. R. (2019). Why did I say sorry? Apology Motives and Transgressor Perceptions of Reconciliation (PDF). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40, 912-930.
†Brienza, J. P., †Kung, F. Y. H., †Santos, H. C., Bobocel, D. R., & Grossmann, I. (2018). Wisdom, bias, and balance: Toward a process-sensitive measurement of wisdom-related cognition (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 1093-1126.
†Brienza, J. P., & Bobocel, D. R. (2017). Employee age alters the effects of justice on emotional exhaustion and organizational deviance (PDF). Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article ID 479, 1-15.
Grossmann, I., †Brienza, J. P., & Bobocel, D. R. (2017). Wise deliberation sustains cooperation (PDF). Nature Human Behaviour, 1 (#0061), 1-6. Plus Supplementary Information (PDF), 1 (#0061), 1-20.
†Rizvi, S., & Bobocel, D. R. (2016). Promoting forgiveness through psychological distance (PDF). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 875-883.
Brockner, J., Wiesenfeld, B. M., Siegel, P. A., Bobocel, D. R., & †Liu, Z. (2015). Riding the fifth wave: Organizational justice as a dependent variable (PDF). Research in Organizational Behavior, 35, 103-121.
†Zdaniuk, A., & Bobocel, D. R. (2015). The role of idealized influence leadership in promoting workplace forgiveness (PDF). Leadership Quarterly, 26, 863-877.
†Day, M. V., & Bobocel, D. R. (2013). The weight of a guilty conscience: Subjective body weight as an embodiment of guilt (PDF). PLOS ONE 8, 1-7: e69546.
Bobocel, D. R. (2013). Coping with unfair events constructively or destructively: The roles of overall justice and self-other orientation (PDF). Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 720-731.
†Zdaniuk, A., & Bobocel, D.R. (2013). The automatic activation of (un)fairness behavior in organizations (PDF). Human Resource and Management Review, 23, 254-265.
†Umphress, E. E., †Simmons, A., Folger, R., †Ren, R., & Bobocel, D. R. (2012). Observer reactions to interpersonal injustice: The roles of perpetrator intent and victim perception (PDF). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34, 327-349.
†Baumert, A., †Otto, K., †Thomas, N., Bobocel, D. R., & Schmitt, M. (2012). Processing of unjust and just information: Interpretation and memory performance related to dispositional victim sensitivity (PDF). European Journal of Personality, 26, 99-110.
†Zdaniuk, A., & Bobocel, D. R. (2012). Vertical individualism and injustice: The self-restorative function of revenge (PDF). European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 640-651.
†Zdaniuk, A., & Bobocel, D.R. (2011). Independent self-construal and opposition to affirmative action: The role of microjustice and macrojustice preferences (PDF). Social Justice Research, 24, 341-364.
†Otto, K., †Baumert, A., & Bobocel, D.R. (2011). Cross-cultural differences for distributive justice principles: Resource type and uncertainty management (PDF). Social Justice Research, 24, 255-277. Winner of Morton Deutsch 2011 Best Paper Award.
†Son Hing, L. S., Bobocel, D. R., Zanna, M. P., Garcia, D. M., & Gee, S. S. (2011). The merit of meritocracy (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 433-450.
†Holmvall, C. M., & Bobocel, D. R. (2008). What fair procedures say about me: Self-construals and reactions to procedural fairness (PDF). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 147-168.
†Son Hing, L. S., Bobocel, D. R., Zanna, M. P., & †McBride, M. V. (2007). Authoritarian dynamics and unethical decision making: High social dominance orientation leaders and high right-wing authoritarianism followers (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 67-81.
Bobocel, D. R., & Hafer, C. L. (2007). Justice motive theory and the study of justice in work organizations: A conceptual integration (PDF). European Psychologist, 12, 283-289.
Van den Bos, K., †Peters, S. L., Bobocel, D. R., & Ybema, J. F. (2006). On preferences and doing the right thing: Satisfaction with advantageous inequity when cognitive processing is limited (PDF). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 273-289.
Irving, P. G., Coleman, D. F., & Bobocel, D. R. (2005). Exploring the moderating role of negative affectivity in the procedural justice-job satisfaction relation (PDF). Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences, 37, 20-32.
†Peters, S. L., Van den Bos, K., Bobocel, D. R. (2004). The moral superiority effect: Self versus other differences in satisfaction with being overpaid (PDF).Social Justice Research, 17, 257-273.
†Son Hing, L. S., Bobocel, D. R., & Zanna, M. P. (2002). Meritocracy and opposition to affirmative action: Making concessions in the face of discrimination (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 493-509.
Edited books
Bobocel, D. R., Kay, A. C., Zanna, M. P., & Olson, J. M. (Eds.) (2010). The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 11). New York: Psychology Press.
Book chapters
Bobocel, D. R., & †Mu, F. (2016). Organizational justice and employee commitment: A review of contemporary research (PDF). In J. P. Meyer (Ed.), Handbook on employee commitment (pp. 346-360). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Bobocel, D. R., & †Gosse, L. (2015). Procedural justice: A historical review and critical analysis (PDF). In R. Cropanzano & M. Ambrose (Eds.). Oxford handbook of justice in the workplace (pp. 51-87). New York: Oxford University Press.
†Rizvi, S., & Bobocel, D. R. (2015). Using the concept of distance to broaden the horizons of organizational justice (PDF). In S. Gilliland, D. Steiner, & D. Skarlicki (Eds.), Research in social issues in management: Social dynamics of organizational justice (Vol. 8, pp. 37-59). Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
Bobocel, D. R., & †Zdaniuk, A. (2010). Injustice and identity: How we respond to unjust treatment depends on how we perceive ourselves. In D. R. Bobocel, A. C. Kay, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol.11, pp. 27-52). New York: Psychology Press.
Bobocel, D. R., & †Zdaniuk, A. (2005). How can explanations be used to foster organizational justice? (PDF) In J. Greenberg & J. Colquitt (Eds.), The handbook of organizational justice (Vol. 1, pp. 469-498). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
†Blader, S. L., & Bobocel, D. R. (2005). Wanting is believing: Understanding psychological processes in organizational justice by examining subjectivity in justice judgments (PDF). In S. Gilliland, D. Steiner, D. Skarlicki, & K. Van den Bos (Eds.), Research in social issues in management: What motivates fairness in organizations? (Vol. 4, pp. 3-29). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Bobocel, D. R., †Son Hing, L. S., †Holmvall, C. M., & Zanna, M. P. (2002). Policies to redress social injustice: Is the concern for justice a cause both of support and of opposition? (PDF) In M. Ross and D. Miller (Eds.), The justice motive in everyday life (pp. 204-225). New York: Cambridge University Press.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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