This study provides the first comprehensive meta-analysis of terrorism’s impact on public opinion. By synthesizing evidence across diverse contexts and research designs, the paper shows that terrorism has systematic but limited effects on citizens’ political attitudes.
This article demonstrates how terrorism-induced fear undermines social trust. Drawing on cross-national data and theoretical insights, it shows that terrorism reduces trust not through direct exposure alone but through the broader societal climate of fear it generates.
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.