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This study investigated religiousness as an outcome measure, the persistence of traumatic effects, health, and worldviews after 9/11. Previous research found that trauma could affect these variables. This investigation was a secondary data analysis of an analog comparative clini…

This dissertation provides oral histories of people arrested and deported in connection with September 11 attacks. Over 40 interviews were conducted with individuals in jails, released within the US, and deported to Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Trinidad. Using a multi-disciplinar…

This research explored the cognitive processes underlying the Response Amplification Effect (RAE), which is ambivalent people's tendency to judge the object of their ambivalence (typically, a stigmatized other) more extremely than a comparable control target. Being in a state of…

Identity has been a relatively popular theme in psychological-explanations of terrorism since the early 1980s. Its initial introduction relied upon neo-Freudian Erik Erikson's process of identification and contended that individuals who engaged in terrorism had adopted a negativ…