The present research investigated the trickle-down effect of procedural fairness enacted by societal institutions on minority members’ social trust. Building on the racial identity development hypothesis, we argued that procedural fairness represents a racial socialization experience, which influences how minorities perceive discrimination in daily life. Perceived group discrimination, in turn, impacts social trust. The results of five studies with African American samples corroborated the hypothesized mediation model. Study 1 showed that minority members distinctly perceive fairness enacted by institutions and discrimination by fellow citizens. Subsequent studies demonstrated that manipulating procedural fairness influenced perceived discrimination in an “attribution-to-discrimination” paradigm (Study 2), and that inducing discrimination lowered trust in an allocation game (Study 3). Finally, Studies 4 and 5 obtained cross-sectional evidence for the full model. Our results thus contribute to literature by showing that perceived discrimination mediates the relationship between procedural fairness and social trust. Societally relevant practical implications are discussed.

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程序公平对日常歧视认知的涓滴效应：社会行为者如何在少数群体成员之间建立社会信任

本研究调查了社会机构制定的程序公平对少数群体成员社会信任的涓滴效应。基于种族认同发展假设，我们认为程序公平代表了一种种族社会化体验，它影响了少数民族如何看待日常生活中的歧视。反过来，感知到的群体歧视会影响社会信任。五项针对非裔美国人样本的研究结果证实了假设的中介模型。研究 1 表明，少数族裔成员清楚地感受到制度制定的公平和同胞的歧视。随后的研究表明，在“归因到歧视”范式（研究 2）中，操纵程序公平会影响感知歧视，导致歧视降低了对分配博弈的信任（研究 3）。最后，研究 4 和 5 获得了完整模型的横截面证据。因此，我们的结果通过表明感知歧视在程序公平与社会信任之间的关系中起到了中介作用，从而为文献做出了贡献。讨论了与社会相关的实际影响。