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Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence

verfasst von: Johannes Ullrich, J. Christopher Cohrs

Erschienen in: Social Justice Research | Ausgabe 2/2007

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The issue of international terrorism has figured frequently in recent political debates and media coverage. In the present paper, we explore the question of how the salience of the concept of international terrorism affects the system-justifying tendencies of public opinion. On the basis of Terror Management Theory and System Justification Theory it was hypothesized that terrorism salience would lead to increased system justification. Four experiments with student and non-student adult samples support the hypothesis, yielding a medium-sized average effect of d = 0.47. Across variations in the intensity of focal death-related thoughts, the effect was not subject to boundary conditions typical of mortality salience effects. Social and political psychological implications are discussed.

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Titel: Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence
verfasst von: Johannes Ullrich
J. Christopher Cohrs
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2007
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Social Justice Research / Ausgabe 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0885-7466
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-007-0035-y

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