How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions
How Students and the Public Define Terrorism, and How Education Affects Those Definitions
Peter Krause Betül Özturan Liane Young a Department of Political Science, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USAb Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USAPeter Krause is an Associate Professor of political science at Boston College and a Research Affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win (Cornell University Press, 2017), co-editor of Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). His research focuses on Middle East politics, political violence, nationalism, rebels and civil war, and peace-building.Betül Özturan is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Boston College. Her dissertation focuses on alliances among rebel groups in civil war and their impact on power-sharing institutions. Her Master’s thesis provides improved estimates of political violence data in Turkey by merging conflict event datasets.Liane Young is a Professor of Psychology at Boston College, where she is the director of the Morality Lab, which specializes in moral psychology—dilemmas, judgment, and emotions in moral judgment and behavior. Dr. Young’s current research focuses on the role of theory of mind and emotions in moral judgment and moral behavior. To explore these topics, she uses the methods of social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and examination of patient populations with specific cognitive deficits. Among other media entities, Dr. Young’s insight and findings have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, MSNBC, U.S. News & World Report, CNN, ABC News, CBS, and Fox News.