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Any circumstance or event with the potential to harm a system through unauthorised access, destruction, disclosure, or modification of information. NIST SP 800-30 fixed the working triad in 2012: a threat source exploits a vulnerability, and the likelihood and impact of that event is the risk. Threat modelling turns the noun into a procedure, Shostack's 2014 account of STRIDE walks a system diagram asking, for each element, about spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, denial of service, and elevation of privilege. Jouini, Rabai, and Ben Aissa's 2014 classification sorts threats by source, agent, motivation, and intention. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat is external to the system and always paired with the weakness it needs; a threat without a vulnerability is not a risk.[1][2][3]
A state's judgement that another state has both the capability and the intention to harm it. Walt argued in 1985 that states balance against threat rather than raw power, and that threat is the product of aggregate power, geographic proximity, offensive capability, and perceived aggressive intentions. Stein's 2013 review shows how much of the construct sits in the perceiver: threat is assessed through cognitive shortcuts and emotion, and misperception is the normal case rather than the exception. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat is a relationship between two actors' beliefs about each other, and it can be real, exaggerated, or invented without any change in the world.[4][5]
A statement that a reasonable recipient would understand as a serious expression of intent to commit unlawful violence, and which the state may therefore punish without offending the First Amendment. Watts drew the line in 1969: crude political hyperbole about the President was not a threat, so a conviction could not stand. Counterman settled the mental-state question in 2023, holding that a speaker must at least have been reckless (consciously disregarding a substantial risk that the words would be read as threatening) before a true-threat conviction is constitutional. Batchis traced the doctrine's long failure to define its own exception. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat is a communicative act judged by the speaker's culpability and a listener's reasonable reading, and never by whether the harm was possible.[6][7][8]
A process or activity that reduces a population's size or range and so raises its probability of extinction. The IUCN Red List uses threatened as an outcome label: Mace and colleagues explained in 2008 how the criteria (population decline, restricted range, small population size, and quantitative analysis) sort species into Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered. Salafsky and colleagues fixed the input side the same year with a hierarchical classification of direct threats, from residential development through invasive species to climate change, so that every assessment names the same drivers the same way. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat has no intent and the threatened party is a taxon; a species is threatened by a rate of decline, not by anyone's hostility.[9][10]
A person's evaluation that a demand exceeds the resources they have to meet it. Lazarus and Folkman fixed the framework in 1984: primary appraisal asks whether an encounter matters, secondary appraisal asks what can be done, and the same exam or interview becomes a threat when anticipated harm outweighs coping capacity and a challenge when the balance runs the other way. Blascovich and Tomaka's 1996 biopsychosocial model gave the two states different physiologies (challenge raises cardiac output and lowers vascular resistance, threat does the opposite) so the appraisal can be read off the body. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat is inside the appraiser and can be flipped by reframing the demand or the resource.[11][12]
The risk of confirming, through one's own performance, a negative stereotype about a group one belongs to. Steele and Aronson showed in 1995 that Black students underperformed on a difficult verbal test when it was framed as diagnostic of ability and matched white students when it was not, and argued that the situational pressure of the stereotype, not any deficit, explained the gap. Spencer, Logel, and Davies' 2016 review set out the mechanisms (working-memory load, monitoring, and disengagement) and the interventions that relieve them. What distinguishes this meaning is that the threat is to a social identity, is triggered by a situational cue, and is measured as a performance decrement rather than as any feeling of danger.[13][14]
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