Communicating about the risks of terrorism (or anything else)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8720719
AutoresBaruch Fischhoff (0000-0002-3030-6874, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume66
Fascículo6
Páginas520-531
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/a0024570
PMID21823780
OpenAlexW2057612253
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas3

Communication is essential to preventing terrorists from achieving their objectives. Effective communication can reduce terrorists' chances of mounting successful operations, creating threats that disrupt everyday life, and undermining the legitimacy of the societies that they attack. Psychological research has essential roles to play in that communication, identifying the public's information needs, designing responsive communications, and evaluating their success. Fulfilling those roles requires policies that treat two-way communication with the public as central to ensuring that a society is strengthened, rather than weakened, by its struggle with terror. There are scientific, organizational, and political barriers to achieving those goals. Psychological research can help to overcome them-and advance its science in the process

Business · Everyday life · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Science communication · Terrorism · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Law