In the Wake of National Trauma: Psychological Reactions Following the<i>Charlie Hebdo</i>Terror Attack

Ben–Ezra, Menachem; Leshem, Elazar

doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15020239

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“…Although alpha values exceeded the reliability benchmark, they were lower than in previous studies 1,2 , perhaps due to cultural/educational factors, which markedly differed in our sample from usual ones. Yet the findings illuminate the psychological aftermath of perhaps the most extreme atrocity occurring in recent years.…”

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“…As we said, the WHO Mental Health Action Plan sets a global target for 80% of countries to develop or update their mental health legislation in line with international human rights instruments by 2020 2 . Although half of the Commonwealth country policies identify the development of new mental health legislation as a key policy action, the reality lies in actual delivery and whether countries which have new legislation as a key policy action do succeed in delivering equity.…”

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women, as CPTSD may both be a catalyst for increasing risk of experiencing future stress, as well as increasing one's vulnerability to such exposure. These various options can be assessed in a future longitudinal study addressing PTSD/CPTSD immediately after captivity release and at different time points in the post-ISIS camps. In any case, fortifying such traumatized women with a safe environment along with psychoeducation targeting their increased sensitivity may be very helpful until suitable interventions are available.Limitations of the current study include a cross-sectional cohort and a relatively small sample. Although alpha values exceeded the reliability benchmark, they were lower than in previous studies 1,2 , perhaps due to cultural/educational factors, which markedly differed in our sample from usual ones. Yet the findings illuminate the psychological aftermath of perhaps the most extreme atrocity occurring in recent years.Results also indicate the need for greater awareness of postcaptivity conditions. Future large-scale studies are required to continue the assessment of Yazidi captives. This should be informative with regard to theoretical issues concerning CPTSD, its distinction from PTSD, as well as aiding the development of feasible, culturally relevant and effective interventions to help these survivors.

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“…The atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are having vast psychological effects around the world 1,2 . The Yazidis, a Kurdish religious minority, have suffered the most at the hand of ISIS 3 .…”

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Complex PTSD and its correlates amongst female Yazidi victims of sexual slavery living in post‐ISIS camps

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“…Put differently, numbed individuals tend to not feel good or bad, but simply muted or flat, and have difficulty imagining strong emotional reactions in future events. Numbing can result from social exclusion and is also a defining characteristic of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Baumeister, DeWall, & Vohs, ; Ben‐Ezra, Leshem, & Goodwin, ; Blake et al, ; Litz et al, ; Tull & Roemer, ; Twenge, Baumeister, Tice, & Stucke, ). Interestingly, the capacity of mortality salience, the state of being aware of dying and life's finitude, to temporarily numb has not been explored.…”

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The numbing effect of mortality salience in consumer settings

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2019

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Nationwide Insurance and Johnnie Walker Scotch aired advertisements that encouraged people to contemplate death. What are the immediate emotional and perceptual outcomes of such advertisements? With five studies, thinking about death was found to attenuate emotional reactions and perceptions, a novel finding in the literature. This attenuation was observed with neural and self-report measures along with retrospective and prospective assessments of emotion and is an outcome not yet investigated in mortality salience research. Contemplating death dampened people's expectations of emotion in a future consumption experience and diminished the attractiveness of the experience. Similarly, contemplating death affected backward-looking assessments of emotion, for example, when nostalgic memories are brought to mind. Importantly, this dampening effect of mortality salience was replicated with advertisements that portrayed death-related concepts and attenuated emotional reactions to subsequent advertisements.

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In the Wake of National Trauma: Psychological Reactions Following theCharlie HebdoTerror Attack

Cited by 24 publications

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Mental health policies in Commonwealth countries

Mental health policies in Commonwealth countries

Complex PTSD and its correlates amongst female Yazidi victims of sexual slavery living in post‐ISIS camps

The numbing effect of mortality salience in consumer settings

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