Abstract
This Trends article discusses and evaluates public discourse surrounding the acceptability of militarily invading Iraq through a social psychological perspective. In social psychology, the research tradition for constructs such as free-riding and social loafing suggests that, wittingly or unwittingly, many political actors assume that the United States will act to address actual political threats in a certain way, and that they (the other political actors) can adopt contrarian ideological stances because they don’t have to address those same threats.
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Editor, IBPP
(2002)
"Trends. If You're So Right, Why Are We Sure You're So Wrong? Iraq, Free Riders, and Social Loafing,"
International Bulletin of Political Psychology: Vol. 13
:
Iss.
9
, Article 3.
Available at:
https://commons.erau.edu/ibpp/vol13/iss9/3
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