Palestinian public opinion and terrorism: A two-way street?

Sharvit, Keren; Kruglanski, Arie W.; Wang, Mo; Sheveland, Anna; Ganor, Boaz; Azani, Eitan

doi:10.1080/18335330.2015.1090526

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“…In one study, they asked participants to indicate to what extent they supported violence towards military targets and civilian targets to test the suggested model of nonnormative collective action. Previous studies on terrorism also have indicated the association between support for violence and actual indices of terrorist actions (Krueger & Malečková, ; Sharvit et al., ).…”

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confidence: 89%

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Yustisia

Shadiqi

Milla

et al. 2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Although there have been many empirical studies of terrorism within the psychology literature, relatively few studies have theorized terrorism from the perspective of collective action theory. The present study aimed to understand factors that predict support for Islamist terrorism by using the Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) perspective. To extend previous studies, we added perception of threat and intergroup contact to the model. A correlational study using 66 terrorism detainees in Indonesia as participants found solid support for our expanded EMSICA. The models extending EMSICA with perception of threat and quantity of contact as predictors had improved fit indices and explained more variance in the dependent variable support for Islamist terrorism, as compared to the standard model. Social identity had a significant direct effect on support for Islamist terrorism and mediated the effect of intergroup contact, perception of threat, perceived injustice, and group efficacy on support for Islamist terrorism.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Yustisia

Shadiqi

Milla

et al. 2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…Third, we determine if more frequent and more costly attacks on an outgroup (Israel) are associated with stronger endorsement of terrorism (Hypothesis 3). This analysis conceptually replicates a small number of studies conducted in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (Jaeger et al, 2010;Sharvit et al, 2015). Finally, we establish the timeframe in which domestic terrorist attacks or attacks that target an outgroup predict public approval of terrorism (Research Question 1).…”

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confidence: 72%

“…More precisely, Jaeger et al (2010) demonstrated that attacks that were committed by Hamas against Israeli targets predicted stronger public endorsement of the group among Palestinians (see also Bloom, 2004;Brym and Araj, 2008 failed to endorse this conclusion). Replicating this result, Sharvit et al (2015) showed that, over the course of 6 years, a higher number of attacks targeting Israel was associated with stronger Palestinian public support for suicide bombings. Modeling and simulation studies (Bueno de Mesquita and Dickson, 2007;Siqueira and Sandler, 2007) further suggest that support for terrorism can increase following domestic terrorist campaigns.…”

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confidence: 79%

Assessing the relationship between terrorist attacks against ingroup or outgroup members and public support for terrorism

2022

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Terrorist groups rely on constituency support for their long-term survival. Here, we examined the extent to which terrorists’ own activities are related with public opinion on terrorism. Specifically, we assessed whether more frequent and more costly terrorist attacks against the ingroup are associated with war weariness or retaliatory sentiments, thus, either weaker or stronger approval of terrorism. We further investigated if more frequent and costly attacks that target an outgroup predict higher levels of justification of terrorism. Lastly, we identified the timeframe during which domestic and outgroup terrorist attacks correlate with (lower or higher) public support. The analyses focused on Jordan (ingroup) and Israel (outgroup), over an 8-year period (2004–2011), drawing on data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey and the Global Terrorism Database. Results showed that support for terrorism in Jordan decreased in 2005 and, again, in 2008. The frequency of terrorist attacks and fatality/injury rates in Jordan did not vary significantly during the study period. The number of attacks and fatalities/people injured in Israel, however, changed between 2004 and 2011. Cross-correlations of the time-series further demonstrated that the number of attacks and fatalities/people injured in Jordan was not related with the level of public approval of terrorism in the country. Importantly, and in line with the literature, the casualty rate in Israel was positively associated with support for terrorism in Jordan, in the next year. That is, there is evidence that more/less costly terrorist attacks on an outgroup can predict stronger/weaker public support for the tactic relatively quickly. Those findings provide insights for counter-terrorism measures.

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“…Israeli occupation, this would account for Palestinians suicide bombings over this period. Is this proportion unrealistic, given that a majority of the Palestinian population supports suicide attacks to fight Israeli occupation (Sharvit et al, 2015;Kohut & Bell, 2013)?…”

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confidence: 99%

The statistical logic of suicide terrorism

Varaine¹

2020

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The self-sacrifice of suicide terrorists is subject to sophisticated models of altruistic sacrifice. Yet, a simpler account is that it reflects common suicidal tendencies. This paper offers new micro and macro evidence supportive of this hypothesis. Study 1 compared a sample of suicide and non-suicide terrorists in the United States from 1948 to 2017. Results indicated that suicide terrorists were more likely to display various established suicidal risk factors including history of child abuse, absent parent/s and relationship troubles. Study 2 took advantage of the cross-national variations in suicidal tendencies to explain the incidence of suicide and non-suicide terrorist attacks worldwide from 1991 to 2014. Results revealed that countries with higher share of deaths from suicide displayed higher incidences of suicide attacks but similar incidences of non-suicide attacks. The decision of some terrorists to sacrifice their life may well have been subject to over-theorization.

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Palestinian public opinion and terrorism: A two-way street?

Cited by 5 publications

References 47 publications

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Assessing the relationship between terrorist attacks against ingroup or outgroup members and public support for terrorism

The statistical logic of suicide terrorism

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