Confrontational and preventative policy responses to terrorism: Anger wants a fight and fear wants "them" to go away

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-384

  Skitka, Linda J ^a   Bauman, Christopher W ^a   Aramovich, Nicholas P ^a   Morgan, G Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 34248362872     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2804_11     Document Type: Article

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