Objectives

Invasive security practices create resentment, especially when targeting minority groups. Many studies of homeland security as well as of general policing practices, emphasized the harm such security checks produce; however, they could not tell us what effect avoiding these practices had on perceptions of trust.

Methods

Our study follows a security screening reform in Israel’s Ben-Gurion international airport, a reform that was done to eliminate a specific practice which we found, in a previous study, to cause significant emotional harm. Employing a quasi-experimental design, we tested the effect that avoiding that specific harmful component had on perception of trust among Israeli citizens of Arab ethnicity.

Results

We found that eliminating that harmful component of the security screening was highly effective in improving the feelings of Israeli citizens of Arab ethnicity.

Conclusion

We found that limited trust and perceptions of unfair treatment are not inevitable feelings among minorities, even in stressful situations such as airport security screening, as they predominantly depend not on background characteristics, but rather on the characteristics of the direct treatment they receive.

中文翻译：

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减轻侵入性安全措施的后果：国际机场的准实验

目标

侵入性安全实践会引起不满，尤其是针对少数群体时。许多关于国土安全以及一般警务实践的研究都强调了这种安全检查所产生的危害；然而，他们无法告诉我们避免这些做法对信任感有什么影响。

方法

我们的研究遵循以色列本古里安国际机场的安全检查改革，该改革旨在消除我们在之前的一项研究中发现的会造成重大情绪伤害的特定做法。我们采用准实验设计，测试了避免特定有害成分对阿拉伯族裔以色列公民信任感的影响。

结果

我们发现，消除安全检查中的有害成分对于改善阿拉伯族裔以色列公民的感受非常有效。

结论

我们发现，即使在机场安检等压力情况下，对不公平待遇的有限信任和看法也并非不可避免，因为它们主要取决于他们接受的直接待遇的特征，而不是背景特征。