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Continuing the Tradition of Research on War: The Persian Gulf War
Author(s) -
Lehman Darrin R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1993.tb01178.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , persian , coping (psychology) , psychology , stressor , spanish civil war , just war theory , social psychology , gulf war , criminology , political science , history , clinical psychology , law , ancient history , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science
The Persian Gulf War provided a unique opportunity for social scientists to pursue a wide range of important psychological issues. The present set of papers focuses on two such issues : coping with the stress of war and war‐related attitudes and thought. The articles on stress and coping frame such processes either in individual, familial, or societal terms. They underscore the importance of studying secondary victimization and expanding our conceptualization of those affected by collective stressors, such as war. The papers on war‐related attitudes and thought address key psychological underpinnings, by examining the shifting of attitudes over time and integrative complexity of war‐related thought. Empirical research on war is quite challenging, yet it is also highly informative with respect to basic psychological processes .