The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence

Conway, Lucian Gideon; Conway, Kathrene

doi:10.1080/17467586.2011.627940

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“…This analytic approach was derived from the study of the relationships among network metrics by Valente et al 32. and was previously applied to identify central actors of covert social networks by Conway33. The residuals of the linear regression were used to identify central markets as the ones displaying a greater predicted value than the observed one.…”

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Implications of the cattle trade network in Cameroon for regional disease prevention and control

Motta

Porphyre

Handel

et al. 2017

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126

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Movement of live animals is a major risk factor for the spread of livestock diseases and zoonotic infections. Understanding contact patterns is key to informing cost-effective surveillance and control strategies. In West and Central Africa some of the most rapid urbanization globally is expected to increase the demand for animal-source foods and the need for safer and more efficient animal production. Livestock trading points represent a strategic contact node in the dissemination of multiple pathogens. From October 2014 to May 2015 official transaction records were collected and a questionnaire-based survey was carried out in cattle markets throughout Western and Central-Northern Cameroon. The data were used to analyse the cattle trade network including a total of 127 livestock markets within Cameroon and five neighboring countries. This study explores for the first time the influence of animal trade on infectious disease spread in the region. The investigations showed that national borders do not present a barrier against pathogen dissemination and that non-neighbouring countries are epidemiologically connected, highlighting the importance of a regional approach to disease surveillance, prevention and control. Furthermore, these findings provide evidence for the benefit of strategic risk-based approaches for disease monitoring, surveillance and control, as well as for communication and training purposes through targeting key regions, highly connected livestock markets and central trading links.

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Implications of the cattle trade network in Cameroon for regional disease prevention and control

Motta

Porphyre

Handel

et al. 2017

Sci Rep

126

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“…As is standard in archival integrative complexity research (e.g., Conway & Conway, ; Suedfeld & Rank, ; Tetlock, ; Thoemmes & Conway, ), we removed all information from the selected paragraphs that might directly identify who the speaker is and replaced that with generic information, and then we presented the paragraphs in random order to four trained scorers. All scorers coded all paragraphs.…”

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Are Conservatives Really More Simple‐Minded than Liberals? The Domain Specificity of Complex Thinking

Conway

Gornick

Houck

et al. 2015

Political Psychology

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Prior research suggests that liberals are more complex than conservatives. However, it may be that liberals are not more complex in general, but rather only more complex on certain topic domains (while conservatives are more complex in other domains). Four studies (comprised of over 2,500 participants) evaluated this idea. Study 1 involves the domain specificity of a self-report questionnaire related to complexity (dogmatism). By making only small adjustments to a popularly used dogmatism scale, results show that liberals can be significantly more dogmatic if a liberal domain is made salient. Studies 2-4 involve the domain specificity of integrative complexity. A large number of open-ended responses from college students (Studies 2 and 3) and candidates in the 2004 Presidential election (Study 4) across an array of topic domains reveals little or no main effect of political ideology on integrative complexity, but rather topic domain by ideology interactions. Liberals are higher in complexity on some topics, but conservatives are higher on others. Overall, this large dataset calls into question the typical interpretation that conservatives are less complex than liberals in a domain-general way.

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“…At a broad level, one of the persistent questions yet to be fully answered is the degree that complex language is the result of personal cognitive factors versus strategic presentation/impression management concerns. Although personal cognitions and strategic self-presentation do not constitute mutually exclusive categories, nonetheless, some of the available evidence supports the idea that personal cognitive factors—such as the cognitive strain on the individual—affect complexity more than strategic concerns such as self-presentation (see Conway & Conway, 2011; Conway, Suedfeld, & Tetlock, 2001; Suedfeld, 1992; Tetlock, & Tyler, 1996). However, the evidence is not overwhelming and some research does suggest strategic concerns matter (e.g., Tetlock, Hannum, & Micheletti, 1984).…”

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The Strategic Manipulation of Linguistic Complexity: A Test of Two Models of Lying

Repke

Conway

Houck

2017

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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To what degree is complex language driven by personal cognitive factors versus strategic self-presentation? Studies teasing apart these two influences on complexity are hard to design and evidence bearing on the question is not abundant. To fill this gap, the present studies explored two models relevant to a form of communication full of strategic implications: deception. The cognitive strain model suggests that because lies are cognitively draining, deception will generally reduce complexity, whereas the strategic model expects the liar to adjust complexity up or down depending on the perceived benefits. Three studies tested differential predictions from these models by scoring different forms of linguistic complexity (dialectical and elaborative) for deceptive communications in real-world and experimental contexts. Results from these studies support the value of a strategic model of the effect of lying on complex language, thus suggesting that people strategically manipulate the complexity of their language to accomplish specific goals.

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The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Implications of the cattle trade network in Cameroon for regional disease prevention and control

Implications of the cattle trade network in Cameroon for regional disease prevention and control

Are Conservatives Really More Simple‐Minded than Liberals? The Domain Specificity of Complex Thinking

The Strategic Manipulation of Linguistic Complexity: A Test of Two Models of Lying

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