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The friend of my enemy is my enemy: international alliances and international terrorism [PDF]

, 2009
Terrorism is an instrument for groups that cannot achieve their political goals legally. One important strategic function of terrorism is to weaken the government – either directly by attacking representatives or supporters of the government or ...
Neumayer, Eric, Plümper, Thomas
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MANAGING TERRORISM IN AFRICA [PDF]

Problems of Management in the 21st Century, 2021
Despite the different interpretations on the origins and a possible way to manage the Islamic terrorism in Africa, a thing is clear: this phenomenon gained importance in the last few years. Data of ACLED show that in 2015 Africa registered 381 attacks, which resulted in 1.394 fatalities; five years later the number increased to 7.108 attacks and 12.519
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Infodemic: the effect of death-related thoughts on news-sharing

Cognitive Research, 2021
Research on the sharing of fake news has primarily focused on the manner in which fake news spreads and the literary style of fake news. These studies, however, do not explain how characteristics of fake news could affect people’s inclination toward ...
Amy J. Lim, Edison Tan, Tania Lim
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Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience [PDF]

, 2012
The current work tested the hypothesis that a glucose drink would reduce worldview defense following mortality salience. Participants consumed either a glucose drink or placebo, wrote about either death or dental pain, and then completed a measure of ...
Gailliot, Matthew T.
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An Economic Model of Mortality Salience in Personal Financial Decision Making: Applications to Annuities, Life Insurance, Charitable Gifts, Estate Planning, Conspicuous Consumption, and Healthcare

Journal of Financial Therapy, 2016
The study of personal mortality salience and the denial of death have a long history in psychology leading to the modern field of Terror Management Theory.
Russell N James III
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Negotiating the inhuman: Bakhtin, materiality and the instrumentalization of climate change [PDF]

, 2013
The article argues that the work of literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin presents a starting point for thinking about the instrumentalization of climate change.
Adam B., Adorno T.W., Arendt H., Artaud A., Bakhtin M.M., Bakhtin M.M., Bakhtin M.M., Bakhtin M.M., Bataille G., Beck U., Chown M., Clark K., Clark N., Dalby S., Debray R., Hetherington K., Holquist M., Jonas H., Kirby V., Klein N., Levinas E., Lovelock J., McGuire B., Morson G.S., Serres M., Serres M., Shepherd D., Shklovsky V., Spivak G.C., Stallybrass P., Van Wyck P.C., Žižek S.   +31 more
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What will others think of me? The longitudinal association between trauma-related shame and guilt and psychopathology after a terror attack

BJPsych Open
Background Trauma-related shame and guilt have been identified as important factors for mental health following interpersonal trauma. For survivors of terror and disasters, however, the role of shame and guilt remains largely unknown.
Kristin Alve Glad, Helene Flood Aakvaag, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Grete Dyb, Siri Thoresen   +4 more
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Fighting terror with law? Some other genealogies of pre-emption [PDF]

, 2013
Within criminology and criminal law the reception of post-9/11 counter-terrorist law has generally been critical, if not hostile. The undeniable proliferation of preventive statutes has been regarded as incompatible with conventional liberal norms and
Mark Finnane, Susan Donkin
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Putting the Terror Management Theory to Work: Exploration and Explanation

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2021
Book review: Bartosz Bolechów, Gdy światło się mroczy: Światopogląd Państwa Islamskiego w perspektywie teorii opanowywania trwogi, Toruń 2020, pp. 276.
Joanna Rak
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Investigating the Role of Normative Support in Atheists’ Perceptions of Meaning Following Reminders of Death

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels
Melissa Soenke, Kenneth E. Vail, Jeff Greenberg   +2 more
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