Vicarious revenge and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Polio and politics. A great scourge might soon be gone, but war, mistrust and even the death of Osama bin Laden could get in the way.

How do you feel now? On the perceptual distortion of extremely recent changes in anger

• We examine affect-based retrospective biases for extremely recent events. • We show that people show systematic biases in assessment of recent changes in anger. • We provide insight into revenge and its relation to in-group dynamics. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Revenge Retrospective bias Affective forecasting Anger Ingroup Previous research on retrospective biases in emoti...

Ensuring public health neutrality.

n engl j med 368;12 nejm.org march 21, 2013 1073 be shot down and far more would crash because the Nigerian government’s shoot-to-kill order forced them to fly at night. The brazen targeting of Red Cross relief flights on civilian humanitarian missions was hard to imagine. In the minds of some people, however, these attacks were justified by another clear violation of humanitarian neutrality: o...

Distinguishing Two Dimensions of Uncertainty

Barack Obama made one of the most difficult decisions of his presidency: launch an attack on a compound in Pakistan that intelligence agents suspected was the home of Osama bin Laden. In an interview Obama described the raid as the longest 40 minutes of his life. He attributed that tension to two sources. First, he was not certain that bin Laden was actually residing in the compound. " As outst...

A View of Cyberterrorism Five Years Later

A few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Pakistani Muslim hacking group GForce Pakistan announced the formation of the “Al-Qaeda Alliance Online” on a U.S. government website it had just defaced. Declaring that “Osama bin Laden is a holy fighter, and whatever he says makes sense,” the group posted a list of demands and warned that it planned to hit major U.S. military and Briti...