The Impact of 9/11 on Psychology and Education The Day that Changed Everything?

by Morgan, Matthew J.; Sternberg, Robert J.; Zimbardo, Philip G.

• ISBN13: 9780230608436
• ISBN10: 0230608434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Impact of 9-11 on Psychology and Educationis the fifth volume of the six-volume seriesThe Day that Changed Everything?edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. With forewords by Robert Sternberg and Philip Zimbardo, the volume's contributors include Henry Giroux, Jeff Greenberg, Thomas Pyszczynski, David Elkind, Yuval Neria, Roxane Cohen Silver, Stephen Sloan, Walter Davis, and other leading scholars.

Author Biography

Matthew J. Morgan is Director of the Business Systems Analyst Group at Starwood Hotels. He has served in a variety of teaching appointments at various institutions, including Assistant Professor of Government at Bentley College, Lecturer of Organizational and Political Communications at Emerson College, and others. Morgan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has completed graduate work at Harvard Business School and the University of Hawai`i. He served six years in U.S. Army intelligence, including a tour in Afghanistan in which he was awarded the Bronze Star. He is the author of A Democracy Is Born (2007) and The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and Empire (2008).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
About the Contributors	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. 1
Psychology and Trauma
Eight Years in the Wake of 9/11: A Terror Management Analysis of the Psychological Repercussions of the 9/11 Attacks	p. 7
Waging Terror: Psychological Motivation in Cultural Violence and Peacemaking	p. 23
Coping with a Collective Trauma: Psychological Reactions to 9/11 across the United States	p. 37
	p. 49
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Social Responses to 9/11	p. 63
Shifting Moralities: Post-9/11 Responses to Shattered National Assumptions	p. 81
Fear across America in a Post-9/11 World	p. 97
Coping after 9/11: Deep Interconnectedness and Struggle in Posttraumatic Stress and Growth	p. 115
Trauma and Tragic Transformation: Why We Learned Nothing from 9/11	p. 139
Generational Effects
The Effects of Horrific Trauma on Children and Youth	p. 151
How Has Terrorism Impacted the American Family?	p. 161
The Impact of 9/11 on Stress, Health, and Health Risk Behaviors among Adolescents	p. 173
Death and Intergenerational Behavior: A Tale of Power and Immortality	p. 187
Terrorism and Education
Militarized Knowledge and Academic Soldiers: Arming the University	p. 203
Terrorism Education since 9/11	p. 223
Military Education; New Paradigms for a Post-9/11 World	p. 239
College Student Reactions to 9/11: Civilian, ROTC, and Military Academy Undergraduates	p. 253
"City of the world!": A New Generation's American Exceptionalism	p. 265
Index	p. 273
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