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In the wake of 9/11, the psychology of terror, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index

index present

non fiction

In the wake of 9/11

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Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon

the psychology of terror

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

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