This article conceptualizes political radicalization as a dimension of increasing extremity beliefs, feelings, and behaviors in support intergroup conflict violence. Across individuals, groups, mass publics, twelve mechanisms are distinguished. For ten these mechanisms, occurs context group identification reaction to perceived threat the ingroup. The variety strength reactive point need understand radicalization—including extremes terrorism—as emerging more from dynamics than vicissitudes...

"Core disgust" is a food related emotion that rooted in evolution but also cultural product. Seven categories of disgust elicitors have been observed an American sample. These include food, animals, body products, sexual de viance, body-envelope violations, poor hygiene, and contact with death. In addition, social concerns such as interpersonal contamination socio- moral violations are associated disgust. Cross-cultural analyses its using Israeli, Japanese, Greek Hopi notions were...

In this paper we review and extend measures of political mobilization: the increasing extremity beliefs, feelings, behaviors in support inter-group conflict. Building on previous research, introduce Activism Radicalism Intention Scales (ARIS). The Scale assesses readiness to participate legal non-violent action, whereas illegal or violent action. ad-hoc samples U.S. Ukrainian undergraduates, an Internet panel survey representative population, intentions formed two correlated but...

This article reviews some of the milestones thinking about political radicalization, as scholars and security officials struggled after 9/11 to discern precursors terrorist violence. Recent criticism concept radicalization has been recognized, leading a 2-pyramids model that responds by separating opinion from action. Security research implications are briefly described, ending with call for more attention emotional experience in understanding both (PsycINFO Database Record

Public opinion can permit or encourage retaliatory aggressive state policies against vulnerable but threatening out-groups. The authors present a model in which public support for such is determined by perceived threat from and dehumanization of the target group. This two-factor predicts Israeli Jews' two policies: more hypothetical notion Palestinian population transfer concrete, coercive actions toward Palestinians. find (1) that are distinct constructs, each having unique contributions to...

Research has shown that there is no profile of individual characteristics group-based terrorists, but profiling the lone wolf terrorists may yet be possible. In this article, we bring together suggestions about what a might look like. We describe two-pyramids model distinguishes radicalization opinion from action, then use to review three case histories terrorists. also results comparing two kinds mostly actor violent offenders: assassins and school attackers. Results highlight gap between...

Humiliation is often cited in attempts to understand the origins of asymmetric conflicts, especially conflicts involving terrorism. This article reviews common usage, expert opinion, and experiences interpersonal intergroup suggest a construct definition humiliation as combination anger shame. Following appraisal theory, this distinguishes between situational appraisals associated with (insult injury; failure retaliate) emotional experience (in which shame may be more synergism than...

College students and their parents rated willingness to wear sweaters previously worn by a target person described as having AIDS, another infectious illness (tuberculosis), misfortune (maimed in automobile accident), moral taint (convicted murderer), or simply healthy but unknown man. Parallel ratings were obtained with respect beds slept automobiles owned the same set of persons. Results indicated that there are strong individual differences sensitivity 4 sources aversion indirect...

Three classes of introductory psychology students at the University Pennsylvania completed a survey including several measures group identification on 20 March 2001, 15 September and 24 2003. Importance country university were rated higher four days after 9/11 terrorist attacks than six months before or 18 after. Scores 9-item scale with immediately other two assessments. Four theories (group dynamics, CORFing, TMT, SIT) are considered; none predicts whole pattern results observed....