How Social Science Can Reduce Terrorism

By SCOTT L. PLOUS and PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO

In a press conference several months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people ... would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

President Bush expressed similar surprise when he told the...

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