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Social psychology
A group feels the world is against itIn social psychology, a siege mentality is a shared belief within a group that the surrounding world holds negative intentions toward it, producing distrust of outsiders, pressure for internal unity, and resistance to criticism. Bar-Tal and Antebi's 1992 Siege mentality in Israel defined and examined this collective conviction and its consequences for how a society perceives and responds to others. The referent is a group-level belief about hostile surroundings and the defensive stance it induces, sharing only the image of being besieged with the physical operation of siege warfare.[1]