![]() This essay offers a new angle on Kleist's patriotic drama Die Herrmannsschlacht by re-evaluating the text's political stakes in relation to the history of the French Revolution and the new-found awareness of the performative functions of language and imagery that emerged in the revolutionary context. Relative to their nonviolent comparison groups, terrorist groups also used more power, ingroup affiliation, and achievement motive imagery, and expressed lower levels of integrative complexity. Statistical analyses revealed that, compared with their nonterrorist counterparts, both terrorist groups described themselves by using more positive morality, religion, and aggression value references, and described their enemies by using more negative religion value references (e.g., references to being infidels). group that operated in the same context and had a similar ideology but did not engage in terrorist violence was chosen. ![]() The two terrorist groups were Central al Qa'ida and al Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula. This study examined whether quantitative content analysis of the value references, motive imagery, and integrative complexity expressed in the documents of two terrorist groups and two nonterrorist comparison groups could distinguish the violent groups from their nonviolent counterparts.
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