| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Terror in America: the day our world changed -- Terror management theory: an evolutionary existential account of human behavior -- Terror management research: coping with conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts -- Terror management research: prejudice and self-esteem striving -- Black Tuesday: the psychological impact of 9/11 -- Managing the terror -- The roots of Islamic terrorism -- Giving peace a chance -- In the wake of 9/11: rising above the terror. |
| Summary |
This book explores the emotions of despair, fear, and anger that arose after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the autumn of 2001. The authors analyze reactions to the attacks through the lens of Terror Management Theory, an existential psychological model that explains why humans react the way they do to the threat of death and how this reaction influences their post-threat cognition and emotion. The theory provides ways to understand and reduce terrorism's effect and possibly find resolutions to conflicts involving terrorism. The authors focus primarily on the reaction in the US to the 9/11 attack, but their model is applicable to all instances of terrorism, and they expand their discussion to include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book has practical implications and will be a resource for mental health practitioners, researchers, and anyone concerned with the causes and effects of terrorism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Psychological aspects.
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Terrorism -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
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Terror.
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Fear of death.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks -- psychology.
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Terrorism -- United States -- psychology.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) (OCoLC)fst01112794
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| Chronological Term |
2001
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| Subject |
Fear of death. (OCoLC)fst00922066
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Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354086
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Terror. (OCoLC)fst01148096
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Terrorism -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01148132
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Greenberg, Jeff, 1954-
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Solomon, Sheldon.
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Pyszczynski, Thomas A. In the walk of 9/11 (print) (DLC) 2002067561 |
| ISBN |
1557989540 (print) |
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9781557989543 (print) |
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