A trauma-like model of political extremism: Psycho-political fault lines in Israel

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-31

  Laor, Nathaniel ^a,b,c,d   Yanay Shani, Alma ^a,b   Wolmer, Leo ^a,b   Khoury, Oula ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b The Donald J Cohen and Irving B Harris Resilience Center for Trauma and Disaster Intervention   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault line conflict; Jewish Arab conflict; Political extremism; Threats; Transcendence; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MORALITY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICS; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; ARAB; CONFLICT; HOLOCAUST; INJURY; JEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; ARABS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149279007     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05693.x     Document Type: Article

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