Are children's views of the "enemy" shaped by a highly-publicized negative event?

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 345-353

  Oppenheimer, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

enemy images; highly publicized events; Muslim extremism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NATURAL ENEMY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC FIGURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77954056930     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025409339098     Document Type: Article

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