Terrorism Mortality Salience Manipulation: A Causal Mediation Analysis

Building upon past findings on terrorism and individual-level politically conservative self-identification, I evaluate the effect of terrorism mortality reminders on conservative self-placement with three survey experiments, using non-representative Facebook samples in Turkey (2018, 2020). The scant...

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Main Author: Erol, Fatih (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 7, Pages: 1536-1555
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Turkey
survey experiment
Fear
Terror Management Theory
Conservatism
Terrorism

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