How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups: A terror management account

2008/12/25 by Enny Das, Brad J. Bushman, Marieke D. Bezemer +3 · 314 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Criminology #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #History #Ingroups and outgroups #Islam #Law #Outgroup #Political science #Prejudice (legal term) #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Terror management theory #Terrorism

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.12.001

published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45(3), 453-459 (Elsevier BV)

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