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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"threat perception"”.
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Proliferation signals: information, uncertainty, threat perception and response
… 2) whether and to what extent it constitutes a threat. To do this, they rely on the interpretation of information, which I classify as being either political (membership in the NPT, for example) or technical (reactor design, as an example), that may suggest, either one way or another, whether …
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Dealing with danger : threat perception and policy preferences
… theory specifying the relationship between threat perception and policy preferences. The project takes a unified approach to studying the space of danger-mitigating political behaviors. It is designed to demonstrate that a single psychological model can apply to both citizens and elites and …
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Uncertainty and Threat Perception: Nationalism as an Informational Index of International Behavior
… state-level nationalism exerts on dynamics of threat perception? The primary goal of this research is to investigate in what ways and to what extent state-level nationalism is used as an indicator of states’ intentions by governments in order to reduce uncertainty about the possible motivations …
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Threat Perception Alteration as an Effect of Use-of-Force Simulation Training
… work police officers are often placed in life threatening situations. To prepare officers for these interactions police academies employ use-of-force simulations to train relevant skills such as situational awareness and judgement. Repeated exposure to threatening situations, such as those in …
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U.S. nuclear power plants as terrorist targets : threat perception and the media
… from the standpoint of both safety and terrorist threats, more so than the other risks that we face everyday. This thesis then explores the role of the press in influencing and being influenced by public perception. The conclusions of this thesis can be boiled down to these main points: (1) The …
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Threat Perception, Non-State Actors, and U.S. Military Intervention after 9/11
… a case study of U.S. military intervention and threat perception. This research analyzes how these two concepts evolve from the post-Cold War era into the post-9/11 era. To the extent that U.S. military intervention and threat perception are comparable before and after 9/11, this is indicative …
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An Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Optimize Health Messages for At-Risk Populations during COVID-19: Investigating the Relationship between Threat Perception and Protective Health Behaviours in People with Obesity
… Parallel Process Model was applied to explore perceptions of COVID-19 and protective behaviours, and the effects of targeted messages on motivation among PwO. Participants (N=76) completed an online survey and received a targeted COVID-19 message. Adherence to protective behaviours was …
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Sorry states : apologies in international politics
… and other acts of contrition necessary to reduce threat and build trust between former adversaries? This has become an accepted conventional wisdom, despite the fact that the effects of contrition have not yet been tested. This dissertation outlines and tests an "apology theory" of international …
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Internal and External Attentional Biases in Social Anxiety: The Effect of Effortful Control
… in social anxiety: self-focused attention and threat perception bias. Mansell, Clark, and Ehlers (2003) devised a novel dot-probe paradigm to simultaneously measure on-line attention to internal and external events among socially anxious adults. Their results indicated that high speech anxious …
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The Effects Of Secondary Task Demandon The Assessment Of Threat
Threat perception is an important issue in today's world. As the line between hostile and non-hostile entities is blurred, it becomes more important for individuals to clearly distinguish between those who would present danger and those who would not. This series of experiments tested whether …
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Predicting COVID-19 Compliance Behaviors in College Students Using the Health Belief Model
… COVID-19 regulations and that the HBM construct threat perception (perceived severity and susceptibility) was the strongest predictor of compliance. Gender, classification, and institution type were also significant predictors of compliance.
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The 1993 North Korean Nuclear Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis
… Korea attempted nuclear armament because of its perception of threat from South Korea and the United States; 2) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because it wanted to use its nuclear program as leverage to obtain economic assistance from the United States. I conduct a diplomatic historical …
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Testing Revonsuo's Threat simulation theory of dreaming
Revonsuo's Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming asserts that dreaming was selected during human evolution because it has the adaptive function of providing a threat-free context in which threat perception and avoidance can be rehearsed. This study aimed to test the prediction that the threat …
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Evolving Threat Narratives: The Case of China's Transition from Foe to Friend during Rapprochement
… to better understand the nature of American threat narratives, how narratives evolve, what drives the change, and finally, what it all means for perceptions of threat to the US. The purpose of this study is to understand the implications of bias on evolving threat narratives and threat …
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The rise of "china threat" arguments
The study seeks to explain the rise of "China threat" arguments in the United States and Japan in the 1990s by using three theories of states behavior- realism, organization theory, and democratic peace theory. The rise of "China threat" arguments occurred in the United States and Japan because of …
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The causes of religious wars : holy nations, sacred spaces, and religious revolutions
… the conditions under which religious wars arise: threat perception, the intertwining of political and religious authority, and the amount of resources available to a given religious group.
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An Investigation Of The Cognitive And Perceptual Mechanisms Involved In Mania-Proneness
… of negative events, and higher levels of threat perception, suggesting an overall propensity toward negative affect. These results are discussed in terms of previous research in this area, heterogeneity observed in Bipolar Disorder, implications for diagnostic classification, and the …
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MARCS: Mobile Augmented Reality for Cybersecurity
… compromising user situational awareness of cyber threats. To combat this problem, augmented reality (AR) can be employed to visualize data within a cyber-physical context to restore user perception and improve comprehension; thereby, enhancing cyber situational awareness. Multiple generations of …
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Marketing Challenges for Cybersecurity Services
… potential to revolutionize cyber-solutions and threat perception for customers. Organizations suffer greatly from cyber threats due to a lack of threat knowledge and productivity in the face of a virtual work environment. My research methodology consists of two major research strategies: 1) …
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