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

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 countert...

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Autores principales:	Stefano Passini, Piergiorgio Battistelli
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Universidad de San Buenaventura 2014
Materias:	Terrorism support to war authoritarianism ethnocentrism media Psychology BF1-990
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/666f176471f548c7bfc2c909abaa6073
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:666f176471f548c7bfc2c909abaa60732021-11-25T02:22:27ZSupport to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes10.21500/20112084.6642011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/666f176471f548c7bfc2c909abaa60732014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/664https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922Recently, 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.Stefano PassiniPiergiorgio BattistelliUniversidad de San BuenaventuraarticleTerrorismsupport to warauthoritarianismethnocentrismmediaPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Terrorism support to war authoritarianism ethnocentrism media Psychology BF1-990 Stefano Passini Piergiorgio Battistelli Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
description	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.
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title	Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
title_short	Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
title_full	Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
title_fullStr	Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
title_full_unstemmed	Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes
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Support to military or humanitarian counterterrorism interventions: the effect of interpersonal and intergroup attitudes

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