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The police officer’s terrorist dilemma: trust resilience following fatal errors

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Mathew P. White, J. Christopher Cohrs, Anja S. G ritz (2008). The police officer’s terrorist dilemma: trust resilience following fatal errors. European Journal of Social Psychology 38(6):947-964 Suicide attacks have raised the stakes for officers deciding whether or not to shoot a suspect (Police Officer’s Terrorist Dilemma). Despite high-profile errors we know little about how trust in the police is affected by their response to the terrorist threat. Building on a conceptualisation of lay observers as intuitive signal detection theorists, a general population sample (N = 1153) were presented with scenarios manipulated in terms of suspect status (Armed/Unarmed), officer decision (Shoot/Not Shoot) and outcome severity (e...continue to full post

Full post as published by Terrorism Research News on September 28, 2008 (boomark / email).

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