TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Fear and Loading: Archival Traces of the Response to Extraordinary Violence
JO  - Social psychology quarterly
A1  - Archer, D.
A1  - Erlich-Erfer, L
SP  - 343
EP  - 352
VL  - 54
IS  - 4
N2  - This is an archival study of fear and fearful behavior. In 1973, a single county in California was beset by a dramatic epidemic of homicide. We examine two archival indictors of fear: handgun purchases and hitchhiking. We use these indictors to study the distribution of fear in time, place, and the social order. The results show that archival data can be used to reconstruct emotional responses to fearful events, that community fear peaks after the objective danger is past, that community fear is more uniformly spread than the objective danger, and that gun purchases after violent events are demographically similar to gun purchases at other times. We indicate some characteristics of unusually fearful individuals, describe the persistence of fear, and discuss empirical differences between objective and subjective fear.<p />
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SN  - 0190-2725
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -