and its violation can trigger physiological consequences (Tabibnia et al. 2008). Accordingly, irrespective of attribution, the perception of unfair treatment may generate distress. For example, in the Whitehall study, perceived unfairness has been related to incident coronary events (De Vogli et al. 2007a), incident psychiatric morbidity (Ferrie et al. 2006), and metabolic syndrome (De Vogli et al. 2007b). These studies were not framed within the context of discrimination but unfairness is operationalized with measures similar to those used in the discrimination literature.
