You Are the Real Terrorist and We Are Just Your Puppet: Using Individual and Group Factors to Explain Indonesian Muslims’ Attributions of Causes of Terrorism

You Are the Real Terrorist and We Are Just Your Puppet: Using Individual and Group Factors to Explain Indonesian Muslims’ Attributions of Causes of Terrorism

The current study investigates the role of individual and intergroup factors in predicting Muslims’ tendency to attribute domestic terrorism in Indonesia to an external cause (i.e., The West) or an internal cause (i.e., radical Islamist groups). The results (N = 308) showed that intergroup factors o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ali Mashuri, Lusy Asa Akhrani, Esti Zaduqisti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2016-02-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
Subjects:
Islamic fundamentalism
symbolic threat
realistic threat
attribution of terrorism
uncertainty avoidance
cognitive and emotional responses to mortality salience
Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1001

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http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1001

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