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The concept of “justice sensitivity” has been introduced as a personality disposition by Schmitt, Neumann and Montada (1995) and is supposed to explain inter-individual differences in reactions to unfair situations. Justice sensitivity can be differentiated in three subdimensions: (1) Sensitivity with regard to experiencing injustice towards oneself (JS_Victim), (2) sensitivity to observing that others are treated unfairly (JS_Observer) and, (3) sensitivity to profiting from unfair events (JS_Perpetrator). Using a sample of 190 university students the three dimensions of justice sensitivity were used to predict decisions in a number of game theoretical paradigms (dictator games, ultimatum games and a combination of these two games). The higher respondents scored on both JS_Observer and JS_Perpetrator, the more their decisions followed norms of equality. The contrary was true for JS_Victim. The implications of these findings for …