{"id":845,"date":"2016-04-21T23:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:50:05","slug":"psychology-could-prove-vital-in-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/04\/21\/psychology-could-prove-vital-in-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology could prove vital in war on terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social psychology can provide vital insights for policy-makers in the fight against terrorism according to psychologists from the universities of Kent and Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the US magazine <em>Scientific American Mind<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/abramsd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Professor Dominic Abrams<\/span><\/a>, of the University\u2019s School of Psychology, and co-author Dr Kevin Dutton, of the University of Oxford, suggest policy-makers should consider placing social psychology in the &#8216;centre ground&#8217; of the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>The authors identify seven pieces of psychology research \u2013 including one led by Professor Abrams \u2013 that would provide policy-makers with valuable insights into the minds of those carrying out terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please go to the University of Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/9588\/psychology-could-prove-vital-in-war-on-terror\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">News Centre<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social psychology can provide vital insights for policy-makers in the fight against terrorism according to psychologists from the universities of Kent and Oxford. Writing in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/04\/21\/psychology-could-prove-vital-in-war-on-terror\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,109,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}