Divergent Reactions to the Threat of War: A peace and a shelter group were studied to examine their different responses to the Berlin crisis.
While the extent of similarity between the two groups was surprising, this similarity may have been due to the particular community studied and should not obscure the real differences which were found, which apparently remained fairly stable. The two groups differed not only in their beliefs about shelters but in their attitudes toward war, United States foreign policy, the motives of the Soviet Union, political affiliation and activity, risk-taking behavior, their own descriptions of themselves and of the opposite group, and a number of general social issues. Finally, each group had misperceptions about the other, one group exaggerating, the other under-rating, the differences.
Ekman
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Cohen
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Moos
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Raine
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Schlesinger
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Stone
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