The Threat of Nuclear War
Risk Interpretation and Behavioral Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10220697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T R Tyler (0000-0002-2647-7670, Northwestern University, corresponding author), Kathleen M Mcgraw (Northwestern University) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-40 |
| Publication date | 1983-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1983.tb00128.x |
| OpenAlex | W2119549029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 17 |
This study examines the psychological antecedents of behavioral responses to the threat of nuclear war. Two groups known to have responded behaviorally to the threat of nuclear war—nuclear freeze activists and survivalists—are compared to a sample of members of the general public. The influence of four types of psychological antecedents was explored. The antecedents studied were: judgments of risk, efficacy judgments, attributions of causality and moral responsibility, and general political orientations. The results suggest that citizens' behaviors in response to the threat of war are influenced by rational factors, i.e., by judgments of the potential efficacy of actions and by judgments of their potential causal role in preventing war. In addition, judgments concerning citizens' moral responsibility for preventing war exercise an independent effect upon behavior. These results suggest the importance of exploring citizens' psychological interpretations of social and political events as a means of understanding behavioral reactions to those events
Attribution · Causality (physics · Interpretation (philosophy · Moral responsibility · Political science · Politics · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology
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The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior
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Nuclear Locus of Control Scales
Process and Protest
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The dynamics of inaction
Psychologists and nuclear war
Psychology and the threat of nuclear war
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Individual Differences in Attitudes Towards Nuclear Arms Policies
Weapons of Mass Deterrence
Nuclear weapons concerns, agency beliefs, and social responsibility values in disarmament activism
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Perceived threat and control as moderators of peace activism
Identity and injustice
Providing Information and Shaping Attitudes about Nuclear Dangers
A Survey of Psychologists' Nuclear War Attitudes
Individual Orientation Toward Engagement in Social Action
International Reactions to the Threat of Nuclear War
Who in Middletown Supports a Nuclear Freeze
Activism against Armageddon
Objective and subjective cultural relationships related to industrial modernization and social progress
The Functions and Dysfunctions of Preparations for Fighting Nuclear War
Assessment of Global Social Responsibility
Group Identification, Intergroup Perceptions and Collective Action
Attitudes concerning nuclear war in finland and in the united states
Effects of an International Conflict Simulation on Perceptions of the Soviet Union
Strategic Policy Preferences
Value Underpinnings of Antinuclear Political Activism
The Intragroup Dynamics of Maintaining a Successful Grassroots Organization
Social Science and the Politics of the Arms Race
Who Gets Involved in Collective Action
Remembering the counterrevolution
Moral Judgment and Concern about Nuclear War
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Moral Conviction
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age
Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Nuclear War
Antinuclear and Pronuclear Empowerment and Activism
The emotional motivation of righteous behavior
Participation in America
Models of helping and coping.
The Health Belief Model
The Prediction of Social Action from a Dimension of Internal-External Control
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
A personality correlate of social action1
Rethinking the Unthinkable
The Justice Motive in Social Behavior
An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy
Assignment of responsibility for an accident
Rethinking the Unthinkable
Attribution bias
Personalization in attributing responsibility for national problems to the president
Impact of directly and indirectly experienced events
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |