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Stecklov, Guy; Goldstein, Joshua R. – Social Forces, 2010
In this article, using data on traffic volume and fatal accident rates in Israel from 2001 to 2004--a period spanning much of the Second Intifada--we examine the population-level responses to endemic terror to uncover whether societies become habituated so that the response weakens following repeated attacks or whether they become increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Terrorism, Natural Disasters, Anxiety
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Tal-Or, Nurit; Boninger, David S.; Poran, Amir; Gleicher, Faith – Human Communication Research, 2004
Two experiments examined the impact of counterfactual thinking on persuasion. Participants in both experiments were exposed to short video clips in which an actor described a car accident that resulted in serious injury. In the narrative description, the salience of a counterfactual was manipulated by either explicitly including the counterfactual…
Descriptors: Traffic Safety, Persuasive Discourse, Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills