Terrorism, violence, and hope for peace: A terror management perspective

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 318-322

  Pyszczynski, Tom ^a   Rothschild, Zachary ^a   Abdollahi, Abdolhossein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Ethno religious conflict; Intergroup conflict; Terror management theory; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049147765     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00598.x     Document Type: Review

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