The antinomies of collective political trauma: A pre-theory

Political Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 863-876

  Vertzberger, Yaacov Y I ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognition; Collective trauma; Critical moment; Information processing; Prime minister rabin's assassination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031283916     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00083     Document Type: Article

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