%0 Report %A Jasso, Guillermina %T Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond %D 2007 %8 2007 Feb %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 2641 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2641 %X The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of different fields of phenomena. Both types are usually a surprise; even when vigorously pursued, their form, when they finally appear, may differ radically from preconceptions. This paper examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces – justice, status, and power – and the subsequent unification of the three sociobehavioral forces with identity and with happiness. %K fairness %K comparison %K status %K power %K identity %K happiness %K impartiality %K inequality %K inequality aversion %K loss aversion