Terror and Ethnocentrism: Foundations of American Support for the War on Terrorism

Kam, Cindy D.; Kinder, Donald R.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00534.x

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“…These findings are consistent with research into the effects of threat in intergroup relations, which has found that threat is associated with prejudice and negative attitudes toward outgroups (Stephan & Renfro, 2002). As also suggested by Kam and Kinder (2007), ethnocentrism should therefore be linked to the importance attached to the use of military force in a terrorist-threat scenario.…”

Section: We Vs Them: Terrorism In An Intergroup Perspectivesupporting

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Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes

Passini

Battistelli

2014

Int. j. psychol. res.

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Recently, new interest in terrorism and psychological factors related to supporting the war on terrorism has been growing in the field of psychology. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of various socio-political attitudes on the level of agreement with military and humanitarian counterterrorism interventions. 270 Italian participants responded to a news article concerning measures against terrorism. Half of the participants read an article regarding a military intervention while the other half read about a humanitarian intervention. They then evaluated the other type of intervention. Results showed that military intervention was supported by people with high authoritarian, dominant, ethnocentric attitudes and by people who attach importance to both positive and negative reciprocity norms. Instead, none of these variables was correlated with humanitarian intervention. Finally, there was a considerable influence of media on the acceptance of both interventions RESUMENRecientemente, ha estado creciendo en el campo de la psicología un nuevo interés en el terrorismo y los factores psicológicos relacionados al apoyo de la lucha contra el terrorismo. El objetivo de este estudio fue el de examinar el efecto de varias actitudes socio-políticas en el nivel de aceptación de las intervenciones contraterroristas humanitarias y militares. 270 participantes italianos respondieron a un artículo sobre medidas contras el terrorismo. La mitad de los participantes leyeron un artículo acerca de intervenciones militares mientras que el resto leyó sobre la intervención humanitaria. Luego, todos evaluaron el otro tipo de intervención. Los resultados mostraron que la intervención militar fue apoyada por personas con actitudes autoritarias, dominantes, y etnocéntricas y por personas que adscriben importancia a las normas de reciprocidad tanto negativas como positivas. En cambio, ninguna de estas variables fueron correlacionadas con la intervención humanitaria. Finalmente, había una influencia considerable de los medios de comunicación en la aceptación de ambas intervenciones. Palabras clave:Terrorismo, apoyo a la guerra, autoritarismo, etnocentrismo, medios de comunicación.

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Section: We Vs Them: Terrorism In An Intergroup Perspectivesupporting

confidence: 87%

Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes

Passini

Battistelli

2014

Int. j. psychol. res.

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“…With all the talk of a "clash of civilizations" and the corresponding pictures on our TV screens Western products stay in high demand in the Middle East and are actually gathering market shares at breath-taking pace. 26 If our model is applied to these countries, their general "modernization" is consistent with a shrinking, increasingly radicalized minority which follows religious leaders despite the considerable harm they in ‡ict on them.…”

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Cultural Leaders and the Clash of Civilizations

Hauk

Mueller

2013

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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This article builds a micro founded model of the clash of cultures. The clash is de…ned as the parent's fear of a trait change by their child in an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of cultural traits. The extent of the clash is manipulated by cultural leaders who bene…t from the cultural education e¤ort by parents. We identify three channels through which the leaders can a¤ect the clash of cultures: (i) by providing bene…cial cultural values, (ii) by claims of cultural superiority and (iii) by cultural alienation, i.e. by inducing cultural dislike towards their own group. We show that all three channels can be in the leader's interest but channels (ii) and (iii) reduce the utility of the leader's goup members. This hints to a strong con ‡ict of interest within groups -between the population at large and the benefactors of radicalization. We further show how the use of alienation relates to the economic opportunities available to a group.Both authors acknowledge the support of Barcelona GSE Research and the government of Catalonia. Hauk thanks the economics department of the London School of Economics for its hospitality and acknowledges …nancial support from CICYT project number ECO2009-12695 and of the programa de movilidad de profesorado project PR2009-0375.

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“…53 In short, countering our principal hypothesis, an important counterhypothesis predicts that the effect of proximity to mass public shootings will be conditional upon partisanship, with left-leaning citizens potentially 47 Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen 2000. 48 Huddy et al 2005;Kam and Kinder 2007;Merolla and Zechmeister 2009. 49 Joslyn and Haider-Markel 2013.…”

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