THREAT PERCEPTION, TRUST AND RESPONSIVENESS IN INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIOR,

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Abstract:

Certain aspects of international behavior can be attributed to the images of other nations held by individual people. Three kinds of image are particularly important threat perception, distrust together with its opposite, trust and responsiveness. Threat perception leads to the adoption of defensive tactics and also produces psychological tensions that may impair the quality of national problem solving. Distrust is a more basic perception of another nation and may underlie threat perception in addition to producing such phenomena as a tendency to blame the other nation for all misfortunes and to fail to analyze the motives of its leaders. Level of responsiveness is negatively correlated with the harshness of tactics recommended for dealing with another nation and positively related to the likelihood of seeing middle ground in negotiations with that nation. Author

Author(s):
Pruitt, Dean G.
Author Organization(s):
DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK
Annotation:
Threat perception, trust, and responsiveness in international behavior.
Pagination:
0103

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Collection: TR
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Report Number(s):
11
Contract/Grant Number(s):
Nonr2285 02
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Communities of Interest:
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Descriptor(s):
(*POLITICAL SCIENCE, ATTITUDES(PSYCHOLOGY)), (*PERCEPTION, POLITICAL SCIENCE), DECISION MAKING, REASONING, PUBLIC OPINION, BEHAVIOR, GROUP DYNAMICS, FOREIGN POLICY, COLD WAR
Report Date:
1964 Jan 09