1. On why procedural justice matters in court hearings
Experimental evidence that
behavioral disinhibition weakens
the association between procedural justice
and evaluations of judges
Liesbeth Hulst
Kees van den Bos
Arno Akkermans
Allan Lind
Van: Amber M Gaffney
Datum: zondag 27 november :19
Aan: Dominic Abrams Cynthia Pickett "Williams, Kipling D" Dominic Packer Kees van den Bos Victoria Esses
CC: "Hohman, Zachary" Mike Hogg
Onderwerp: GPIR SPSP Pre-Conference Program and Information
Dear GPIR Pre-Conference Speakers,
We are looking forward to seeing you all in January! 
The GPIR Pre-Conference will be held on Thursday January 19, As you can see from the attached preliminary program, we have an excellent group of speakers. We will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the SAGE journal, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations with a wine reception during the afternoon poster session. In addition, the journal's founding editors, Mike Hogg and Dominic Abrams, will be in attendance to say a few words about the journal. We are also selecting an early career speaker from our pool of submissions to give a full talk during the pre-conference. Our pool this year is massive and we are making selections based on research contribution, methods, scope, societal contribution, and diversity of ideas and application.
As you can see, we have 30 minutes scheduled for each talk. Please prepare to speak for minutes. If you speak for 25 minutes, we will ask that the audience holds questions for you until breaks or during the reception. Please update Amber ASAP with the official title of your talk so that we may advertise it on the SPSP website, for those of you with titles "TBA".
Please feel free to with questions. We will update you when we get more information from SPSP, such as with the location of our official room.
All the best,
Amber, Zach, & Mike --
Amber M. Gaffney, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst St. 
Arcata, CA 95521

2. We want to examine why PJ matters in situations such as court hearings
And, in doing so, we adopt Lewin's recommendation that if you want to truly understand something you need to try to change it

3. Behavioral Inhibition
In particular we focus on the possible role that the behavioral inhibition system plays in this process
perceptual or appraisal perspective

4. Reliance on Salient Situational Cues
Experience
Experience of confusing event, such as appearing for a judge in a bankruptcy or criminal court hearing
Sense-Making
What is going on here? How should I respond?
What behavior is appropriate?
Psychological System
Inhibition of ongoing behaviors,
activation of behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
Reliance on Salient Situational Cues
Such as experience of how judge is treating you
(experience of perceived procedural justice)

5. Reliance on Salient Situational Cues
Experience
Experience of confusing event, such as appearing for a judge in a bankruptcy or criminal court hearing
Sense-Making
What is going on here? How should I respond?
What behavior is appropriate?
Psychological System
Inhibition of ongoing behaviors,
activation of behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
Reliance on Salient Situational Cues
Such as experience of how judge is treating you
(experience of perceived procedural justice)

6. Disinhibition Hypothesis
If people indeed feel inhibited in bankruptcy or criminal court hearings
and if perceived procedural justice indeed is a salient situational cue that people use when forming judgments of trust in judges or legitimate power of those judges
then priming people with general behavioral disinhibited states (in which they care less about what others think of their actions) should attenuate the fair process effect on trust in judges and legitimate power of judges
Behavioral disinhibition: a state in which people do not or only weakly care about what others think of their actions
Van den Bos & Lind (2013, Advances)

7. The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess how people react to being disinhibited, that is, how people behave when they do not care about what others think of their reactions and what feelings they then experience. To this end, please complete the following three questions:
Please briefly describe a situation out of your own life in which you acted with no inhibitions
Please briefly describe the emotions that you experienced when you acted with no inhibitions
Please write down, as specifically as you can, what you think physically will happen to you as you behave with no inhibitions
The questions were introduced to our participants as follows:
The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess how people react to being disinhibited, that is, how people behave when they do not care about what others think of their reactions and what feelings they then experience. To this end, please complete the following three questions: ...
Het doel van deze vragenlijst is om erachter te komen wat voor mensen ongeremd gedrag is. Dus: Hoe gedragen mensen zich als ze zich niks van andere mensen aantrekken en welke emoties voelen ze dan?
Denk niet al te lang na over je antwoord en schrijf op wat je als eerste te binnenschiet. Er zijn geen goede of foute antwoorden.
1) Zou je hieronder zo kort mogelijk een situatie willen beschrijven waarin je geen remmingen voelde? 
2) Zou je hieronder zo kort mogelijk willen omschrijven hoe je je gedroeg in die situatie zonder remmingen?
3) Wil je hieronder, zo kort mogelijk, beschrijven welke emoties je voelde toen je geen remmingen voelde?

8. I feel free and loose, for example, when having discussions with others
I can be who I am, without having to worry about what others might think of my behavior, for instance when I am at home or with my family
The questions were introduced to our participants as follows:
The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess how people react to being disinhibited, that is, how people behave when they do not care about what others think of their reactions and what feelings they then experience. To this end, please complete the following three questions: ...
Het doel van deze vragenlijst is om erachter te komen wat voor mensen ongeremd gedrag is. Dus: Hoe gedragen mensen zich als ze zich niks van andere mensen aantrekken en welke emoties voelen ze dan?
Denk niet al te lang na over je antwoord en schrijf op wat je als eerste te binnenschiet. Er zijn geen goede of foute antwoorden.
1) Zou je hieronder zo kort mogelijk een situatie willen beschrijven waarin je geen remmingen voelde? 
2) Zou je hieronder zo kort mogelijk willen omschrijven hoe je je gedroeg in die situatie zonder remmingen?
3) Wil je hieronder, zo kort mogelijk, beschrijven welke emoties je voelde toen je geen remmingen voelde?

9. Trust in Judges  = .71 ***  = .06 n.s.
Trust in judges as a function of being reminded or not about disinhibited behavior and of perceived procedural justice (low level [-1 SD] versus high level [+1 SD]).
Simple slope analyses (Aiken & West, 1991):
- within control condition: experienced procedural justice was a strong positive predictor of trust in judges,  = .71, t = 4.91, p < .001.
- within disinhibition condition: experienced procedural justice did not significantly predict trust in judges,  = .06, t = 0.24, p = .810.
Hence, being reminded about prior unrelated disinhibited behavior attenuated the fair process effect on trust in judges.
Thus, a strong effect of perceived procedural justice on trust in judges for participants who had not been reminded about disinhibited behavior,
and there was no statistically significant effect of perceived procedural justice on trust in judges for those participants who had been reminded about disinhibited behavior.
 Thus, as can also be seen in Figure 1,
For participants in the control condition:
increasing levels of experienced procedural fairness - increasing levels of trust in judges
[associated with]
In contrast, for participants who had been reminded about disinhibited behavior: experiencing increasing levels of procedural fairness – not more trust in judges

10. Implication
Implication is not that disinhibition is good/recommendable
Implication is insight into why fair process matters when people are forming judgments of trust in societal authorities and the legitimate power of those authorities
cf. gravity experiments
see notes nav LSR-reviews:
the gravity experiment pics are meant to convey that if you want to test how something works out in real life (such as gravity or PJ) you may want to experimentally tinker with the normal conditions under which these concepts operate.

11. On why procedural justice matters in court hearings
Experimental evidence that
behavioral disinhibition weakens
the association between procedural justice
and evaluations of judges
Liesbeth Hulst
Kees van den Bos
Arno Akkermans
Allan Lind
Van: Amber M Gaffney
Datum: zondag 27 november :19
Aan: Dominic Abrams Cynthia Pickett "Williams, Kipling D" Dominic Packer Kees van den Bos Victoria Esses
CC: "Hohman, Zachary" Mike Hogg
Onderwerp: GPIR SPSP Pre-Conference Program and Information
Dear GPIR Pre-Conference Speakers,
We are looking forward to seeing you all in January! 
The GPIR Pre-Conference will be held on Thursday January 19, As you can see from the attached preliminary program, we have an excellent group of speakers. We will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the SAGE journal, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations with a wine reception during the afternoon poster session. In addition, the journal's founding editors, Mike Hogg and Dominic Abrams, will be in attendance to say a few words about the journal. We are also selecting an early career speaker from our pool of submissions to give a full talk during the pre-conference. Our pool this year is massive and we are making selections based on research contribution, methods, scope, societal contribution, and diversity of ideas and application.
As you can see, we have 30 minutes scheduled for each talk. Please prepare to speak for minutes. If you speak for 25 minutes, we will ask that the audience holds questions for you until breaks or during the reception. Please update Amber ASAP with the official title of your talk so that we may advertise it on the SPSP website, for those of you with titles "TBA".
Please feel free to with questions. We will update you when we get more information from SPSP, such as with the location of our official room.
All the best,
Amber, Zach, & Mike --
Amber M. Gaffney, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst St. 
Arcata, CA 95521