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Tagged: psychology

  • Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
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    A dangerous science: psychology in Al Qaeda’s words

    Journal abstract Terrorist organizations’ use of psychology in analysing psychological issues in the everyday lives of their members and developing coping strategies has not been sufficiently investigated in the terrorism[…]

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    Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
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    The Psychology of Foreign Fighters

    Journal abstract The recent influx of foreign fighters into Syria, particularly those aligning with the Islamic State, has brought renewed attention to the security threat posed by people who cross[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Research

    Understanding Radicalization and Engagement in Terrorism through Religious Conversion Motifs

    Journal abstract Although research into the processes and outcomes of radicalization has yielded significant discoveries regarding antecedent risk factors and the role played by societal circumstances and individual variables, research[…]

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    • in De-radicalisation · Ideologies · Regions · Research · UK

    Preventing Violent Extremism through Value Complexity: Being Muslim Being British

    Journal abstract This article reports on an intervention designed to prevent violent extremism in young UK Muslims, and provides an empirical assessment of its effectiveness. The course was designed to[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Ideologies · Radicalisation · Research

    Terrorist’s Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning

    Publisher’s description In the tsunami of publications on terrorism which followed 9/11, few have probed effectively into the deeper layers of motivation that enable normal human beings to carry out[…]

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    • in De-radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    A social psychological critique of the Saudi terrorism risk reduction initiative

    Journal abstract Of great concern to policy makers and detention system administrators who face the need to release detainees suspected of terrorism is how to do so in ways that[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Pathways to radicalisation · Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World

    Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

    From publishers: Explores the ways in which people are radicalized, an issue that is particularly important to the public in the post-9/11 era Draws from a wide range of case[…]

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    • in Causes of radicalisation · Radicalisation · Research · World

    Inspire Magazine: A Critical Analysis of its Significance and Potential Impact Through the Lens of the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Model

    From journal abstract: This article presents an analysis of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s English language publication Inspire that was conceptualized and conducted on the basis of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral[…]

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    • in Pathways to radicalisation · Radicalisation · Research

    From Profiles to Pathways and Roots to Routes: Perspectives from Psychology on Radicalization into Terrorism

    Arguing that terrorist profiling has failed, this article gives a detailed and clear account of how other psychological approaches can lead to a better understanding of how people become terrorists.[…]

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    • in Ideologies · Pathways to radicalisation · Research

    Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty: Going to extremes and being oneself

    Study showing how people react to personal uncertainty by going to personal extremes (hardening of attitudes about social issues and groups). Summary This interesting research does not directly tackle extremism,[…]

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