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Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment
2021
British Journal of Political Science
Does exposure to cyber terrorism prompt calls for retaliatory military strikes? By what psychological mechanism does it do so? Through a series of controlled, randomized experiments, this study exposed respondents (n = 2,028) to television news reports depicting cyber and conventional terror attacks against critical infrastructures in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel. The findings indicate that only lethal cyber terrorism triggers strong support for retaliation. Findings also
doi:10.1017/s0007123420000812
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