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Terror(s) or The Terror may refer to: Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TerrorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Forces of Terror: Armed Banditry and Insecurity in North-west NigeriaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Fahrenheit 451The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview.Cited 993 times
- Go sideways: LegionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Witch (disambiguation)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Intense dread, fright, or fear.
Noun The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
Noun Something or someone that causes such fear.
Noun Terrorism.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview.
A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: An extension of terror management theory.
Evidence for terror management theory: I. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values.
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research
Mobbing and Psychological Terror at Workplaces
Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror
Terror management theory and self-esteem: Evidence that increased self-esteem reduced mortality salience effects.
Culture of Terror—Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture
🆕 Influential since 2022
Forces of Terror: Armed Banditry and Insecurity in North-west Nigeria
The mental health impact of the October 7th terror attack on Jews and Arabs in Israel: A nationwide prospective study
PTSD, distress and substance use in the aftermath of October 7th, 2023, terror attacks in Southern Israel
Stress, resilience, and coping resources in the context of war, terror, and migration
It matters what you see: Graphic media images of war and terror may amplify distress
📚 Books worth reading
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury · 1953
StormbreakerAnthony Horowitz · 2000
The Sum of All FearsTom Clancy · 1991
Black FridayJames Patterson · 1986
Say Cheese and Die!Robert Lawrence Stine · 1992
London BridgesJames Patterson · 2004
Sacred StoneClive Cussler, Craig Dirgo · 2004
Vixen 03Clive Cussler, Anibal Leal Fernández · 1976
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