The “Charlie-Hebdo” Effect: Repercussions of the January 2015 Terrorist
                        Attacks in France on Prejudice toward Immigrants and North-Africans, Social
                        Dominance Orientation, and Attachment to the Principle of
                        &lt;i&gt;Laïcité&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br/&gt; [L’effet « Charlie-Hebdo » :
                        Répercussions des attentats de Janvier 2015 en France sur les Préjugés à
                        l’égard des Maghrébins, l’orientation à la D

Cohu, Medhi; Maisonneuve, Christelle; Testé, Benoît

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“…In their usual social worldview context, participants tend to become more threatened and more hostile toward Muslims as a result of the terrorist attack. This finding is consistent with previous research documenting similar effects of terrorism in other major cities (e.g., EtcheberriaEchabe & Fernandez-Guede, 2006, see also Cohu et al 2016). However, the major contribution of the present research is in showing that this type of reaction is not an inevitable consequence of terrorism.…”

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The Psychological Effects of Terrorism are Moderated by Cultural Worldviews [Les Effets Psychologiques du Terrorisme sont Modérés par les Normes Culturelles]

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Terrorism cannot be easily studied experimentally for obvious reasons. We report the results of a laboratory study (N = 149) testing the effect of cultural worldviews on feelings of threat and hostility toward Muslims in France that include in the design the deadly terrorist attack of January 7 th 2015 in Paris as a naturally occurring independent variable. The results replicate past research by showing that in a natural context, people felt more threatened and more hostile toward Muslims after the terrorist attack than before. However, the reverse occurred in an experimental condition that made the French cultural worldview of colorblind equality salient: People felt less threatened and less hostile after the terrorist attack than before. These results provide, for the first time in the context of a real terrorist attack, support for Terror Management Theory's proposal that cultural worldviews are an effective buffer against terror.Keywords: Terrorism; threat; cultural worldview; colorblind equality; ingroup bias; terror management theory; laboratory Il n'est pas aisé d'étudier les effets du terrorisme expérimentalement pour des raisons évidentes. Nous rapportons les résultats d'une étude de laboratoire (N = 149) testant les effets des normes culturelles sur les sentiments de menace et l'hostilité envers les Musulmans en France qui inclue, dans son plan expérimental, la présence des attentats mortels du 7 Janvier 2015 en tant que variable indépendante naturelle. Les résultats de notre étude répliquent les résultats des recherches passées en montrant que les participants se sentaient plus menacés et ressentaient plus d'hostilité envers les Musulmans après les attentats qu'avant. Cependant, lorsque la norme culturelle de l'égalité citoyenne était rendue saillante, les participants se sentaient moins menacés et ressentaient moins d'hostilité envers les Musulmans après les attentats qu'avant. Ces résultats fournissent, pour la première fois dans un contexte réel d'attaque terroriste, un soutien au postulat avancé par la Théorie de la Gestion de la Terreur selon lequel les normes culturelles peuvent servir de bouclier psychologique face à la terreur.

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“…In fact, these two concepts are clearly distinct (see also Cohu et al, 2016). Laïcité refers to a political approach for managing diversity of religious fundamental beliefs, not to the general cultural process of secularization that result in a loss of the influence of religion over time.…”

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The Psychological Effects of Terrorism are Moderated by Cultural Worldviews [Les Effets Psychologiques du Terrorisme sont Modérés par les Normes Culturelles]

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“…Research on the psychological reactions to terrorism can provide important clues in such matter. Cohu et al (2016) present evidence suggesting that the Paris attack increased outgroup prejudice but that this effect was not long-lasting. They find no effect on social dominance orientation (SDO), which is good news.…”

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“…Both the paper by Cohu, Maisonneuve and Testé (2016) and the one by Pelletier and Drozda-senkowska (2016) show how the use of an extended time frame can be useful. They report evidence based on repeated observations made over time so that one can grasp how things evolved.…”

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« Je suis Charlie » : New Findings on the Social and Political Psychology of Terrorism [« Je suis Charlie » : Nouvelles Avancées en Psychologie Sociale et Politique du Terrorisme]

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2016

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Terrorism, migrant crisis and attitudes towards immigrants from outside of the European Union

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Nežinský

Williams

2021

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This paper analyses how terrorist attacks and high inflows of immigrants impact public attitudes towards immigrants from outside the European Union (EU). It makes an original contribution by analysing both effects in tandem, using an extended longitudinal framework to assess both shorter and longer term impacts and taking into account the role of uncertainty. Ordered probit regression models are applied to data from nine consecutive Eurobarometer (EB) surveys to examine impacts of 25 terrorist attacks in Western Europe in 2014-2018. Attacks with higher number of deaths significantly increase negative attitudes to immigrants although the effect fades over time. However, the 2015 migration crisis had a significant, greater and more sustained impact on attitudes towards immigrants than terrorist attacks. The differences in attitudes to migrants in the EU15 countries and post-communist countries provide support for the assumptions of the intergroup contact theory rather than the group threat theory.

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The Psychological Effects of Terrorism are Moderated by Cultural Worldviews [Les Effets Psychologiques du Terrorisme sont Modérés par les Normes Culturelles]

The Psychological Effects of Terrorism are Moderated by Cultural Worldviews [Les Effets Psychologiques du Terrorisme sont Modérés par les Normes Culturelles]

« Je suis Charlie » : New Findings on the Social and Political Psychology of Terrorism [« Je suis Charlie » : Nouvelles Avancées en Psychologie Sociale et Politique du Terrorisme]

Terrorism, migrant crisis and attitudes towards immigrants from outside of the European Union

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