This article hypothesized that the possibility to construct intellectual meaning of a terrorist attack (i.e., whether participants can cognitively understand why the perpetrators did their crime) reduces the negative psychological consequences typically associated with increased terrorist threat. Concretely, the authors investigated the effect of intellectual meaning (induced by providing addit...

We examine whether exogenous and extremely negative events, such as terrorist attacks mass shootings, influence the sentiment forecasts of sell-side equity analysts. find that analysts who are local to these issue relatively more pessimistic than consensus forecast. This effect is stronger when analyst closer event located in a low-crime region. Impacted also around one- two-year anniversaries ...

Abstract Terrorist events typically vary along many dimensions, making it difficult to identify their economic effects. This paper analyses the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series three large-scale terrorist incidents in France over period from January 2015 July 2016. Using firm-level data at monthly frequency, we document an immediate and lasting decline cross-bord...

Cyberterrorism represents the convergence of the virtual world of cyberspace and the intimidation techniques of terrorism. To better understand why cyber terrorist acts are committed, this paper investigates the motivation behind terrorism by looking at traditional terrorist groups and how their objectives can be met by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This paper addresses the re...

Highly lethal terrorist attacks, which we define as those killing 21 or more people, account for 50% of the total number of people killed in all terrorist attacks combined, yet comprise only 3.5% of terrorist attacks. Given the disproportionate influence of these incidents, uncovering systematic patterns in attacks that precede and anticipate these highly lethal attacks may be of value for unde...

The Nonlinear Relationship Between Terrorism and Poverty Byline: Poverty and Terrorism Walter Enders and Gary A. Hoover The fact that most terrorist attacks are staged in low income countries seems to support the notion that poverty causes terrorism. Certainly, economic theory suggests that it would be easier for a terrorist group to recruit low-income or unemployed individuals since they have ...

Remote memory includes autobiographical memory and memory for public events and famous people. Amnesia for public events can be associated or not with deficits in autobiographical memory, and anterograde amnesia. It could extend on various periods of time and involve all or only parts of remote memory. We present a short version (EVE-10) of a previous 30-item scale (EVE-30), assessing memory fo...

Recollection bias is the phenomenon whereby people who observe a highly unexpected event hold current risk beliefs about a similar event that are no higher than their recollection of their prior beliefs. This article replicates and extends the authors' previous study of recollection bias in relation to individuals' perceptions of the risks of terrorism attacks. Over 60% of respondents in a nati...