{"id":74707,"date":"2025-11-14T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/manipulating-mass-fear\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:03:57","slug":"manipulating-mass-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/manipulating-mass-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating Mass Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of public fears by leaders or the media to increase political control or enforce the adoption of certain policies. This manipulation involves exaggerating real threats or creating imaginary enemies, as well as fueling collective anxiety and fear. These tactics influence collective decisions, increase political loyalty, contribute to the polarization of groups, and can stimulate emotional reactions instead of rational thinking in political situations.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of public fears by leaders or the media to increase political control or enforce the adoption of certain policies. This manipulation involves exaggerating real threats or creating imaginary enemies, as well as fueling collective anxiety and fear. These tactics influence collective decisions, increase political loyalty, contribute to the polarization of groups, and can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-16-key-psychological-concepts-in-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}