Social Inequity Aversion
Inequity is injustice or unfairness or an instance of either of the two. Aversion is “a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it; a settled dislike; a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and especially a usually pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus.” The given definition of inequity aversion is “the preference for fairness and resistance to inequitable outcomes.”
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