RT Review
T1 Speaking of terrorist behaviour
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 77
IS 5
SP 555
OP 576
A1 Phillips, Peter J.
A2 Pohl, Gabriela
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1824524145
AB Using prospect theory as our core descriptive model of the decision-making process, we explore how behavioural economics can be used to expand what can be said about terrorist behaviour and align the inferences about terrorist behaviour that have been drawn from a diverse collection of disciplines. Prospect theory played a key role in the emergence of behavioural economics and provided many leads that were followed up by subsequent generations of researchers to reveal and explain various interesting quirks and anomalies in human decision-making, especially under conditions of risk and uncertainty. The decision-maker that emerges from behavioural economics is one who makes decisions shaped by a mixture of rationality, emotions, aspirations, reference-dependent choices, loss aversion and habits. When we speak of terrorist decision-making and draw inferences about it from different analytical perspectives, behavioural economics can help us to ensure that our inferences are in accordance with each other and, furthermore, help us to deepen our ‘thinking about terrorists’ thinking’.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 572-576
K1 Terrorist
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1007/s10611-021-10010-1