Putting Terror in Its Place
An Experiment on Mitigating Fears of Terrorism among the American Public
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6286040 |
|---|---|
| Autores | D Silverman (0000-0003-0098-0312, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, autor correspondente), Daniel Kent (0000-0002-6322-3696, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA), Christopher Gelpi (0000-0002-1463-9011, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 191-216 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027211036935 |
| OpenAlex | W3192323208 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 59 |
An American’s yearly chance of being killed by a terrorist attack sits at roughly 1 in 3.5 million. Yet, over 40 percent of Americans consistently believe that they or their family members are likely to be a terror victim. Can these inflated estimates of the risks of terrorism be brought closer to reality? With trillions of dollars spent on the “War on Terror,” this question is not just theoretically but practically important. In order to investigate, we use an experimental approach assessing whether people update their beliefs about terrorism when given factual information about the relative risks it presents. We find that public fear of terrorism and demand for countering it can be sharply reduced with better information, dropping essentially to pre-9/11 levels after the treatment and staying that way two weeks later. These results suggest that countering the indirect costs of terrorism may largely require providing more context and perspective
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Economics · Geography · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Terrorism · Computer Science · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
How Terrorism Ends
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Paying the Human Costs of War
The Rational Public
Terrorism and Probability Neglect
None Dare Call It Torture
The Perception of Risk
Are We Trapped in the War on Terror
Warnings, terrorist threats and resilience
The Affect and Effect of Images of War on Individual Opinion and Emotions
The Polls—Review
The Strategies of Terrorism
The Terrorism Delusion
Victory Has Many Friends
Why Terrorism Does Not Work
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Attitudes and reactions to media coverage of terrorist acts
If It Leads, It Bleeds (and If It Bleeds, It Leads)
Whose Views Made the News? Media Coverage and the March to War in Iraq
A Note on Dropping Experimental Subjects who Fail a Manipulation Check
Representing Death in the News
International Events and Foreign Policy Beliefs
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Politics of Opposites
Assuming the Costs of War
Terror and Ethnocentrism
Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Terror and Economic Threat
Stereotypes of Muslims and Support for the War on Terror
The causal interpretation of estimated associations in regression models
When the “Laws of Fear” Do Not Apply
Foreign Policy Attitudes toward Islamic Actors
Bridging Partisan Divisions over Antiterrorism Policies
Fighting the Past
Identifying Media Effects Through Low-Cost, Multiwave Field Experiments
When Corrections Fail
Shot by the Messenger
The Elusive Backfire Effect
War, Casualties, and Public Opinion
Foreign Policy and the Rational Public
Performing on Cue? The Formation of Public Opinion Toward War
A Sensible Public
The Pretty Prudent Public
Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues
Foreign Policy and the Electoral Connection
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans’ Support for the War on Terror
Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
Threat, Anxiety, and Support of Antiterrorism Policies
Biased assimilation and attitude polarization
War and the Inner Circle
Facing up to the facts
Managing Fear
Issue Ownership and Presidential Campaigning, 1952-2000
Six Rather Unusual Propositions about Terrorism
Political Ignorance and Collective Policy Preferences
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
The Multiple Effects of Casualties on Public Support for War
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |