Uncertainty Threat and Inhibition of Compensatory Behaviors: A Goal Conflict Management Perspective

Wichman, Aaron L.; Brunner, Ryan; Weary, Gifford

doi:10.1080/15298868.2013.775718

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“…Indeed, terrorism as a large‐scale societal threat has been associated with a number of specific aversive characteristics for human beings in the scientific literature. Scholars have identified, in particular, a sense of uncertainty (Wichman, Brunner, & Weary, ), the diminution of a feeling of control over the environment (Presson & Benassi, ), the ambiguity (van Stralen, ), and novelty of the situation (Orfali, ). In line with the appraisal theory framework, the specific emotions of individuals result from differential cognitive appraisals of the environment by the organism (e.g., Frijda, ; Lazarus, ).…”

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The pivotal role of perceived emotional synchrony in the context of terrorism: Challenges and lessons learned from the March 2016 attack in Belgium

Pelletier

2018

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack against the World Trade Center in New York City, terrorism has become one of the most distressing large‐scale societal threats. The March 22, 2016 terrorist attack in Brussels, the capital of Belgium undermined the collective sense of perceived security and social cohesion. The present research investigates Belgian civilians’ (N = 202) terrorist threat perception, personal emotions, and the role of perceived emotional synchrony in the construction of the perceived socioemotional climate in Belgium. The main purpose of the current study was to examine the role of perceived emotional synchrony emerging in collective gatherings as a regulatory mechanism improving the perceived socioemotional climate of the country. Additionally, the precise components (personal vs. collective) shaping the perceptions of terrorist threat were also examined. This study was conducted by a questionnaire during the collective gatherings in Brussels 1 week after the terrorist attack. The main results suggest that the terrorist threat has been perceived at the collective level rather than at the personal level. Furthermore, the perceived emotional synchrony with others mediated specifically the relationship between positive personal emotions and the perceived positive socioemotional climate in Belgium. Such findings point to the importance of considering the perceived emotional synchrony in order to provide a better understanding of lay people's psychosocial responses to terrorism and the subsequent construction of collective macro‐social phenomena in post‐terrorist contexts.

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The pivotal role of perceived emotional synchrony in the context of terrorism: Challenges and lessons learned from the March 2016 attack in Belgium

Pelletier

2018

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“…Although the precise foci of these theories differ, it has been shown that uncertainty salience and mortality salience have similar consequences and manifest in similar ways (Wichman, Brunner, & Weary, ) under similar conditions (e.g., cognitive load, see Wichman, Brunner, & Weary, ). Accordingly, we do not elaborate further on the debate about the similarities and differences between the three models of uncertainty management (see Hogg, ; Van den Bos, ; Van den Bos & Lind, ).…”

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The closing of open minds: Need for closure moderates the impact of uncertainty salience on outgroup discrimination

Brizi

Mannetti

Kruglanski

2015

British J Social Psychol

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In three studies, we examined how dispositional need for cognitive closure (NCC) moderates the impact of various types of uncertainty salience (personal and supraliminal in studies 1 and 2; economic and subliminal in Study 3) on implicit attitudes (studies 1 and 3) and explicit discriminatory intentions (Study 2) towards outgroup members. Across all three studies, we found that uncertainty increased discrimination against outgroups among low-NCC individuals but not among high-NCC individuals. High-NCC individuals tended to be more discriminatory irrespective of uncertainty salience. These results suggest that uncertainty salience leads individuals with a low dispositional need for closure to act like those with high need for closure. The implications of the findings for theories about how uncertainty influences social attitudes and intergroup behaviour are discussed.

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Threat and Defense

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McGregor²,

Klackl³

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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Uncertainty Threat and Inhibition of Compensatory Behaviors: A Goal Conflict Management Perspective

Cited by 7 publications

References 63 publications

The pivotal role of perceived emotional synchrony in the context of terrorism: Challenges and lessons learned from the March 2016 attack in Belgium

The pivotal role of perceived emotional synchrony in the context of terrorism: Challenges and lessons learned from the March 2016 attack in Belgium

The closing of open minds: Need for closure moderates the impact of uncertainty salience on outgroup discrimination

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