Causal evidence that terrorism salience increases authoritarian parenting practices

Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 246-254

  Fischer, Peter ^a   Fischer, Julia ^b   Frey, Dieter ^b   Such, Michelle ^c   Smyth, Madleine ^c   Tester, Michelle ^c   Kastenmüller, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authoritarian parenting practices; Parenting style; Terror threat; Terrorism; Threat to social order

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955052688     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000033     Document Type: Article

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