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Why People Keep Saying, “That’s What the Terrorists Want”

Harvard Business Review

A local soccer coach defiantly told me that practice was still on because keeping his team of eight-year olds cooped up indoors in fear is exactly what al-Qaeda secretly wanted. The theory comes from the foundational work of Fritz Heider, the father of attributional theory.

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