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William G. Austin
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 33
Citations - 8273
William G. Austin is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Equity theory & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 33 publications receiving 8159 citations.
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Equity : theory and research
Elaine Hatfield,G. William Walster,Ellen Berscheid,William G. Austin,Jane Traupmann,Mary K. Utne +5 more
TL;DR: This book discusses political participation, voting, and elections in the United States, as well as the role that the media and other institutions have in shaping public opinion and opinion.
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Reactions to confirmations and disconfirmations of expectancies of equity and inequity
William G. Austin,Elaine Walster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated subjects' cognitive, affective, and physiological reactions to equity and inequity and found that subjects were more content (and less distressed) when they were equitably rewarded than when either underrewarded or overrewarding.
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Internal standards revisited: Effects of social comparisons and expectancies on judgments of fairness and satisfaction
TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of two comparison processes on perceptions of fairness and satisfaction, and found that social comparison explained more variation in satisfaction and dominated responses to more specific measures of affect, and that the importance of the saliency of frames of reference in reward evaluation.