RT Article
T1 Right-wing terrorism and out-group trust: the anatomy of a terrorist backlash
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 32
IS 6
SP 1206
OP 1224
A1 Solheim, Øyvind Bugge
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1831518759
AB Terrorist attacks often lead to public backlashes. Following the attacks on July 22, 2011 in Norway, Norwegians showed support for democratic values such as “openness,” “democracy,” and “tolerance” in the public debate and in the commemorations across the country. They also reported higher out-group trust. This paper explores two possible reasons for this increase in trust using a unique panel fielded before and right after the attacks. The first is that cognitive dissonance led people to dissociate from the terrorist and his ideology. The second is that the increase in trust was a response to the public backlash after the attacks. The increase in trust was not caused by cognitive dissonance. Rather, people who were already positive towards immigration, or who saw positive effects of the attacks, became more trusting than others did, and Progress Party supporters increased their trust less than others. These findings are interpreted as a response to the attacks and the political characteristics of the backlash. The study concludes by discussing implications for our understanding of the different consequences of attacks for the terrorists’ imagined constituencies and for the broader public.
NO Gesehen am 19.01.2023
NO Published online: 04 Jun 2018
K1 2011 Norway attacks
K1 Framing
K1 July 22
K1 lone wolf
K1 out-group trust
K1 Right-wing terrorism
K1 Terrorism
DO 10.1080/09546553.2018.1457526