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Dec 5, 2016 · Collective existential threats have not been well-defined thus far, with collective angst amorphously situated between physical and symbolic threats. In the current research we set out to clearly distinguish between these two types of collective existential threat.
- Gilad Hirschberger, Tsachi Ein-Dor, Bernhard Leidner, Tamar Saguy
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01877
- 2016
- Front Psychol. 2016; 7: 1877.
- Nuclear war. While only two nuclear weapons have been used in war so far – at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II – and nuclear stockpiles are down from their the peak they reached in the Cold War, it is a mistake to think that nuclear war is impossible.
- Bioengineered pandemic. Natural pandemics have killed more people than wars. However, natural pandemics are unlikely to be existential threats: there are usually some people resistant to the pathogen, and the offspring of survivors would be more resistant.
- Superintelligence. Intelligence is very powerful. A tiny increment in problem-solving ability and group coordination is why we left the other apes in the dust.
- Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the control over matter with atomic or molecular precision. That is in itself not dangerous – instead, it would be very good news for most applications.
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Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., Leidner, B., & Saguy, T. (2016). How is existential threat related to intergroup conflict? Introducing the multidimensional existential threat (MET) model. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1877.
Existential threat lies at the heart of intergroup conflict, but the literature on existential concerns lacks clear conceptualization and integration. To address this problem, we offer a new conceptualization and measurement of existential threat. We establish the reliability and validity of our measure, and to illustrate its utility, we examine wh...
How is existential threat related to intergroup conflict? Introducing the multidimensional existential threat (MET) model.
Hirschberger, Gilad: School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel Ein-Dor, Tsachi: School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel Leidner, Bernhard: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, US Saguy, Tamar: School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzl...
Adulthood (18 yrs & older); Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs); Thirties (30-39 yrs); Middle Age (40-64 yrs); Aged (65 yrs & older)
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Sponsor: Israel Science Foundation, Israel Recipient: Hirschberger, Gilad, Israel Grant Number:427/13 Sponsor: Bi-national Science Foundation Recipient: Hirschberger, Gilad, Israel Grant Number:2007230
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Dec 1, 2021 · The global climate crisis can be perceived as a threat to existential human needs like control, certainty, and personal existence. These threat appraisals elicit an affective state of individual anxiety – one of the strongest motivators of individual pro-environmental behavior and collective policies and activism.
- Janine Stollberg, Eva Jonas
- 2021
May 20, 2019 · Abstract. We present evidence from two studies probing into whether perceived numerical decline in the White population translate into collective existential threat to Whites, leading in turn to defensive reactions. In Study 1, we used correlational data to show whether collective existential threat mediates the relationship between perceptions ...
- Hui Bai, Christopher M. Federico
- 2020
of the scale, and revealed four distinct existential threats: personal death (PD), physical collective annihilation (PA), symbolic collective annihilation (SA), and past victimization (PV).
May 21, 2020 · The chapter presents a multidimensional model and definition of existential threat and discusses how each component of threat (individual, future-oriented physical threat; collective, future-oriented physical threat; collective, future-oriented symbolic threat; and a collective, past-oriented threat) is present in collective, historical victimiz...
