From schools and civic associations to large political units, democracy at all levels requires collective decision-making. For democracy to work, people must be willing, at least to some degree, to accept the outcomes of this process. This applies particularly to people who are disappointed with the outcome of a decision because otherwise, they might be motivated to question or disobey the non-preferred decision. In this context, the procedural justice approach has made the intriguing suggestion that people's willingness to accept a decision is not determined only by their assessment of the outcome as such, that is, their personal attitude about the selected alternative.Instead, an additional and sometimes even more powerful factor affects people's willingness to accept the decision-the extent to which they believe that the decision was made in a just way. Consequently, even people who are disappointed with a selected alternative can accept it, provided that the procedure used to reach the decision is considered as just (e.g., Tyler, 2006Tyler, , 2012.Although perceived procedural justice has consistently been shown to have positive effects on legitimacy in numerous contexts involving authoritative decision-making, such as court trials and po-