Political Attitudes

Are people becoming desensitized to terrorism? Drawing on a temporal meta-analysis and a controlled comparison of two natural experiments, we find little evidence that responsiveness has systemically diminished – or increased – over time.

This dataset contains effect size estimates of the relationship between terrorism and political attitudes derived from 241 manuscript, which together account for 326 unique studies conducted between 1985 and 2020 among more than 400,000 respondents from approximately 30 countries.