The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization
How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6337607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arie W Kruglanski (0000-0002-4777-9299, START Center University of Maryland), Michele J Gelfand (0000-0002-9780-9230, START Center University of Maryland), Jocelyn J Bélanger (0000-0003-3881-0335, START Center University of Maryland), Anna Sheveland (START Center University of Maryland), Malkanthi Hetiarachchi (Foundation for Reconciliation Sri Lanka), Rohan Gunaratna (International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) Nanyang Technological University Singapore) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 69-93 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/pops.12163 |
| OpenAlex | W2144860744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 278 |
| References cited | 63 |
We present a model of radicalization and deradicalization based on the notion that the quest for personal significance constitutes a major motivational force that may push individuals toward violent extremism. Radicalization is defined as the process of supporting or engaging in activities deemed (by others) as in violation of important social norms (e.g., the killing of civilians). In these terms, radicalization (1) is a matter of degree (in which mere attitudinal support for violence reflects a lower degree of radicalization than actual engagement in violence); (2) represents a subjective judgment proffered by those for whom the violated norms seem important but not by those who have devalued or suppressed the norms in question.Our radicalization/deradicalization model contains three crucial components: (1) the motivational component (the quest for personal significance) that defines a goal to which one may be committed, (2) the ideological component that in addition identifies the means of violence as appropriate for this goal's pursuit, and (3) the social process of networking and group dynamics through which the individual comes to share in the violence‐justifying ideology and proceeds to implement it as a means of significance gain. We present empirical evidence consistent with our model's assumptions and discuss its implications for policies of preventing radicalization and effecting deradicalization
Criminology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Radicalization · Sociology · Terrorism · Violent extremism · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Selling Utopia
Situated and Historized Making Sense of Meaning
Network Analysis of the Association between Minority Stress and Activism in LGB People from Poland
Perempuan dan Narasi Kekerasan
Searching for Satisfaction
Divergent Paths to Martyrdom and Significance Among Suicide Attackers
State, Society and National Security
From needs to goals and representations
Reasoned action in the service of goal pursuit.
The Making of Violent Extremists
Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies
The Process Model of Group-Based Emotion
Cognitive and behavioral radicalization
The terrifying abyss of insignificance
Why we fight
Philosophy of Devotion
The role trauma plays in radicalization into white supremacist and white nationalist extremism
Radicalisation as redemption
How mattering-oriented teacher practices foster positive youth development
QAnon as an Online-Facilitated Cult
Outgroup Contact in the Process of Leaving Terrorism Qualitative Study of Deradicalization and Disengagement Among Former Jamaah Islamiyah Members in Indonesia
From Manuscripts to Moderation
Analysis of Whistleblower beliefs in Latin America
Self-Worth of Social-Political Activists
Peran Kecenderungan Berpikir Tertutup dan Kecenderungan Kebersetujuan pada Potensi Perilaku Radikal Mahasiswa
Why does intellectuality weaken faith and sometimes foster it
A comparison of individual needs and support of violence among radicals, extremists and fundamentalists in Western Europe
Significance quest; Understanding the psychology of husband's intimate partner violence towards wives
Misperceived Motives of Female Terrorism
Big Blocks and Blind Spots
Gap analysis of Pakistan’s non-kinetic responses to violent extremism
Examining the Ideological Foundations, Psychological Influences, and Media Representation of Extremism and Its Social Impact
James Henry Leuba and the Modern Psychology of Religion
Trauma and the extremist life cycle
A Psychology of Ideology
Minority‐ versus Majority‐Status Group Intentions to Transgress the Law When Oppression Is Perceived
Hegemonic masculinities in the ‘Manosphere’
Social exclusion in the lives of terrorists
The street-jihadi spectrum
Radicalizing spaces
How unique are terrorist suspects? Investigating similarities and differences between terrorist suspects, their siblings, and other suspects
Linkage from Self-Sacrifice to Hope Through the Intervening Roles of Perceived Family Support and Attitudes to Aging in Chinese Older Adults
Vulnerable Online
Sınıraşan Göç Kaynaklı Radikalleşme
From conspiracies to insurgence
Antimafia action
The radicalisation loop
Entitativity as a moderator? A brief report unraveling the relations between deprivation, fundamentalism, and radicalization
Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood
Anxious activism
Defining roles, rebuilding lives
Counter-narrative strategies in deradicalisation
The mirage of the jihad. Disenchantment as the pathway to disengagement of female jihadists. A case study about radicalization in Spanish prisons ( El espejismo de la yihad. El desencanto como camino para la desvinculación de las mujeres yihadistas. Un estudio de caso sobre la radicalización en las cárceles españolas )
‘I know what is best for you better than you do’
The quest for significance and resistance to criminality
Analysis of the radicalization of the 17-A terrorist cell
Processes of radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism ( Procesos de radicalización, extremismo violento y terrorismo )
Sharenting as a Bridge
A Multi-Goal, Multi-Action, Cognitive-Affective Model for Understanding Gatekeepers’ Intention to Report Deviant Close-Others
The moral compass and life skills in navigating radicalization processes
The Phoenix Model of Disengagement and Deradicalisation from Terrorism and Violent Extremism
Concept of and approaches toward a developmental prevention of radicalization
Micro and macro-level risk factors for extremism and terrorism
Radicalization potentials of young Muslims in prison
Psychological Differences between Radicalized and non-Radicalized Muslim Prisoners
What Celebrity Case Studies Can Teach about Clinical Formulation of Mental Health Conditions
Development and Initial Validation of Two Brief Measures of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
Radical Ideas for Radical Self‐Importance? Exploring the Links Between Narcissism, Extreme Political Views, and Negative Attitudes Towards Political Opponents
Isis’s Covid-19 Messaging on Twitter
Radicalization Pathways to Terrorist Mass Casualty Violence Across Ideological Motivations
Innovations and Advancements in Criminological Approaches to Terrorism and Violent Extremism
Analyzing Radicalization Dynamics in the Language of Non-Violent Extremists Online in the UK (2016–2021)
Investigating the development of group identity through social reward signalling in a central Manosphere forum
The Effectiveness of De-Radicalization Program in Southeast Asia
On the relationship between right‐wing attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and intergroup threat
When a Sense of “We” Is Lost
Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism
Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”
The causal role of ideology and Cultural Systems in radicalisation and de-radicalisation
Online propaganda use during Islamist radicalization
Eco-martyrdom
Social Psychology and Justice
Feeling Terrified
The role of sensation seeking in political violence
The road to extremism
The psychology of martyrdom
Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence
Mass shootings and the salience of guns as means of compensation for thwarted goals
Violent Extremism
L’extremisme violent
Covid-19
Coping with power asymmetries
Explaining the relationship between religiosity and Islamist attitudes
Passion and moral disengagement
Conforming to Deviate
Militant extremist mindset
Resentment as an affective foundation of radicalization
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant
Occidentalism
The Slippery Slope to GenocideReducing Identity Conflicts and Preventing Mass Murder
Meaning, mortality, and choice
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Concepts and conceptual structure.
A theory of goal systems
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
Dying and Killing for One’s Group
Rejection Sensitivity and the Defensive Motivational System
The Measurement of Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals
Dehumanization
Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures
Motivation reconsidered
Dying to Win
The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
Defining Terrorism
Terror in the Name of God
Dying to Win
Making Sense of Suicide Missions
Leaving Terrorism Behind
Intergroup Conflicts and Their Resolution
Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation
Understanding Terror Networks
On the Division of Labor in Society
Leaderless Jihad
Kamikaze Diaries
Dying to prove a point
Causes and Consequences of Delegitimization
Terror management and tolerance
Personal religious orientation and prejudice
Self-control in action
The Lone Gunmen
Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups
Terrorism—A (self) love story
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
Not quite human
A theory of human motivation
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits
The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale
Culture of honor
Fully Committed
Anger, Hatred, and the Quest for Peace
Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects
Forgetting all else
For God (or) country
Interdependent self-construals mitigate the fear of death and augment the willingness to become a martyr
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities
Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self
Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations
The Birth and Death of Meaning
Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism
Palestinian Suicide Bombing
Exit From Terrorism
Rehabilitating the Terrorists
The Birth and Death of Meaning
| Unique citing works | 278 |
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| Citations per year | 23,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 272 |