TY - JOUR
T1 - The antinomies of collective political trauma
T2 - A pre-theory
AU - Vertzberger, Yaacov Y.I.
PY - 1997/12
Y1 - 1997/12
N2 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination has less of a lasting impact on the Israeli public's political values, beliefs and attitudes than might have been anticipated from the magnitude of the event and intensity of the immediate responses. Why did the assassination have such a short-lived effect? This article considers the puzzle as a specific case of the broader phenomenon of collective political trauma and its consequences for values, beliefs and attitudes held by the mass public toward issues that it associates with the traumatic event. The article offers six deductively inferred hypotheses that describe, explain and link affective, cognitive and behavioral aspects of collectively experienced trauma. These hypotheses form a pre-theory explaining the perseverance of core political cognitions, even in the face of a considerable challenge to their validity and relevance.
AB - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination has less of a lasting impact on the Israeli public's political values, beliefs and attitudes than might have been anticipated from the magnitude of the event and intensity of the immediate responses. Why did the assassination have such a short-lived effect? This article considers the puzzle as a specific case of the broader phenomenon of collective political trauma and its consequences for values, beliefs and attitudes held by the mass public toward issues that it associates with the traumatic event. The article offers six deductively inferred hypotheses that describe, explain and link affective, cognitive and behavioral aspects of collectively experienced trauma. These hypotheses form a pre-theory explaining the perseverance of core political cognitions, even in the face of a considerable challenge to their validity and relevance.
KW - Cognition
KW - Collective trauma
KW - Critical moment
KW - Information processing
KW - Prime minister rabin's assassination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031283916&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/0162-895X.00083
DO - 10.1111/0162-895X.00083
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AN - SCOPUS:0031283916
SN - 0162-895X
VL - 18
SP - 863
EP - 876
JO - Political Psychology
JF - Political Psychology
IS - 4
ER -