The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power of demographic factors (age, sex, location), individual values and normative influences on threat perception and the consequences of this perc...

OBJECTIVES Extensive literature exists about military trauma as opposed to the very limited literature regarding terror-related civilian trauma. However, terror-related vascular trauma (VT), as a unique type of injury, is yet to be addressed. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the Israeli National Trauma Registry was performed. All patients in the registry from 09/2000 to 12/2005 were includ...

On 11 September 2001, President George W Bush declared a ‘war against terrorism’ but the official response to the attacks on America soon became known as the ‘war on terror’. The main aim of this paper is to report the findings of a corpus study designed to assess whether war on and war against are genuinely interchangeable. The findings show that war on is predominantly used for metaphorical w...

The balance of safety and wellbeing of the public is disturbed by an emergency situation. Emergency responders try to mitigate this danger and restore the balance of public welfare and security during an emergency. This act is termed as emergency response. These emergencies could occur at a national level and hence they can be large and complex which could necessitate in the cooperation of seve...

Data on the effect of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) terror attacks on suicide rates remain inconclusive. Reportedly, even people located far from the attack site have considerable potential for personalizing the events that occurred on 9/11. Durkheim's theory states that suicides decrease during wartime; thus, a decline in suicides might have been expected after 9/11. We conducted a time series...

We examined the distress level of 102 Holocaust survivors in Israel during a recent period of continuous exposure of the Israeli population to terror and the threat of missile attack. Based on the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we explored the contribution of losses suffered during the Holocaust and of current loss of resources due to terror attacks on their distress level. Twenty one ...

According to terror management theory (Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, 1997), one factor that increases the tendency to support leaders is the need to quell mortality concerns. The present research applied this analysis to investigate how thoughts about death and the 9/11 terrorist attacks (a death prime) influence attitudes toward the current president of the United States, George W. Bush. Re...

Civilian targets of terrorist or criminal attacks (e.g., sport stadiums, chemical nuclear industry; infrastructure such as ports pipelines) are often owned by the private agents who choose how to guard against potential attacks. This creates an important externality problem, some benefits better protection accrue other would suffer from attack. We analyze a model in which social planner wants p...