Drawing attention to global climate change decreases support for War

Peace and Conflict

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 354-368

  Pyszczynski, Tom ^a   Motyl, Matt ^b   Vail, Kenneth E ^c   Hirschberger, Gilad ^d   Arndt, Jamie ^c   Kesebir, Pelin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Existential anxiety; Global climate change; Intergroup conflict; Intergroup violence; Peace psychology; Terror management theory

Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISLAMISM; MORTALITY; PEACEKEEPING; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; WAR;

GAZA; IRAN; ISRAEL; MOZAMBIQUE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874729179     PISSN: 10781919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030328     Document Type: Article

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