Terror attacks change war support only through increased moral disengagement.

Evidence

Researchers are divided on the question of how serious the psychological effects of terrorism have been in Northern Ireland. (This case is a reminder that it is difficult to isolate the effects of terrorism from those of other conflicts, social prejudice, and government countermeasures.) On the one hand, Fields (1980) and Fraser (1973) argue that terrorism has produced dramatic consequences, especially in the children of Northern Ireland. To Fraser children are being socialized into “a perpetual chaotic state of imminent violence” (p. 8). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4174 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Indiscriminate terrorism requires trained moral disengagement that targeted violence does not — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2116; Counterterrorist states must apply moral disengagement just as terrorists do; Terrorism’s psychological effects cannot be cleanly separated from other conflict factors — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4174 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Terrorism’s psychological effects cannot be cleanly separated from other conflict factors #complicates (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4174
• Counterterrorist states must apply moral disengagement just as terrorists do #complicates (0.72)