A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism

This article presents a theoretical framework for understanding terrorism that is grounded in experimental work on social identity and social power. It is suggested that social identity salience and social power may be harnessed to reduce terrorist activity by reducing perceptions of threat from the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joshua David Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of St Andrews 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Terrorism Research
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Online Access:http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1184