Faced with an epidemic of an infectious disease, persons may take precautionary actions to try to reduce their risk. Such actions include avoiding situations that persons perceive to be risky, which can have negative health and economic effects. Therefore, we conducted a population-based survey of persons' precautionary actions in response to a hypothetical influenza pandemic. For the 5 Europea...

Despite the well documented and emerging insider threat to information systems, there is currently no substantial effort devoted to addressing the problem of internal IT misuse. In fact, the great majority of misuse countermeasures address forms of abuse originating from external factors (i.e. the perceived threat from unauthorized users). This paper suggests a new and innovative approach of de...

Racial disparities in policing and recent high-profile incidents resulting in the deaths of Black men have ignited a national debate on policing policies. Given evidence that both police officers and Black men may be associated with threat, we examined the impact of perceived threat on support for reformed policing policies. Across three studies we found correlational evidence that perceiving p...

BACKGROUND   Intervention strategies and developmental models of stress have been criticized for failing to integrate social psychological variables. This study investigates both self-referential cognitive mediators (perceived threat and control) and a social psychological moderator (ethnic/religious identity) of the effect of peer-victimization upon depressive symptomatology. METHODS   Self-...

There is still little research about the association of anti-immigrant attitudes with ethnic discrimination. In this study we investigate whether there more rental discrimination against minorities in Belgian municipalities negative and higher perceived threats toward immigration refugees. For purpose, merged unique data from correspondence tests aggregated 44 municipalities. was profound candi...