[psych-hr] ASAP Issue on Terrorism and its Consequences

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:59:49 -0500
From: "Rhoda Unger, ASAP Editor" <ASAP@SPSSI.org>
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Announcement of ASAP special feature

Hi everyone,

The ASAP special feature is now on the web and will be available free to
anyone for the next three months. Info on all this and the temporary
password (spssi911) is in the announcement below. Feel free to send it
around to anyone in your networks.

And thanks for all the help.

Rhoda




ON-LINE PSYCH JOURNAL EXAMINES CAUSE AND EFFECTS OF
SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS

What is terrorism? Does moral conviction have a dark side? What are the
consequences of the terrorist attacks for beliefs about civil liberties,
bias against others, attitudes about immigration, and other aspects of
intergroup conflict?

These are some of the questions discussed in "Terrorism and Its
Consequences," a special feature in ASAP (Analyses of Social Issues and
Public Policy). ASAP is an on-line journal published by Blackwell for the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), an affiliate
of the American Psychological Association.

The feature is now posted on ASAP s web site. The web site is
<http://www.asap-spssi.org>. The access password is spssi911 and the
special feature is Volume 2, Issue 1, 2002.

The feature consists of an Introduction and 15 articles on subjects
related to the September 11 attacks, their antecedents, and aftermath. The
articles were written by 19 social scientists from the United States,
Canada, Australia, and Israel.

According to Rhoda Unger, editor of ASAP and a resident scholar at the
Women s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, the feature was
conceived "as a means of providing some understanding of the September 11
events - to offer some of the ideas and research of psychologists and
related social scientists who are experts in issues related to terrorism
and its consequences." The project was initiated a few days after the
attacks, and papers were solicited, reviewed and edited in what Unger
calls "blazing speed compared to the usual pace of academic publishing."

For more information, please contact:

Rhoda Unger or Victoria Esses
781 736 8104 519 661-2111 Ext. 84650
unger@brandeis.edu vesses@uwo.ca
asap@spssi.org

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ASAP SPECIAL FEATURE: TERRORISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Rhoda Unger, Brandeis University

In the wake of terrorist attack hatred may breed fear

Jennifer Freyd, University of Oregon

The definition of terrorism

Charles Ruby, Lieutenant Colonel US Air Force (ret.) The Pinnacle
Center for Mental Health and Human Relations, Waldorf, Maryland

Are terrorists mentally deranged?

Charles Ruby (See above)

Reflections on September 11th: Lessons from four psychological
perspectives

Kevin Lanning, Florida Atlantic University

The "dark side" of moral conviction

Linda Skitka & Elisabeth Mullen, University of Illinois At Chicago

Them and us: Hidden ideologies differences in degree or kind?

Rhoda Unger, Brandeis University

Understanding collective hatred

Niza Yanay, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

A time to hate: Situational antecedents of intergroup bias

Phyllis Gerstenfeld, University of California, Stanislaus

Public attitudes toward immigration in the United States and Canada in
response to the September 11, 2001 "Attack on America"

Victoria Esses, University of Western Ontario, John Dovidio, Colgate
University, & Gordon Hodson, University of Western Ontario

Understanding the September 11th terrorist attack on America: The role
of intergroup theories of normative influence

Winnifred Louis, University of Queensland, & Donald Taylor, McGill
University

Evil and the instigation of collective violence

David Mandel, University of Victoria

Responding to September 11th: A conflict resolution
scholar/practitioner perspective

Eben Weitzman & Darren Kew, University of Massachusetts- Boston

Applied social and community interventions for crisis in times of
national and international conflict

Bradley Olson, DePaul University

Building intergroup relations after September 11

Kien Lee, Association for the Study and Development of Community

Facilitating difficult discussions: Processing the September 11th
attacks in undergraduate classrooms

Jennifer Taylor, Humboldt State University


________________________________
Tod Sloan, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate
Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
(918) 406-4466




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