Are conservatives really more simple‐minded than liberals? The domain specificity of complex thinking

LG Conway III, LJ Gornick, SC Houck… - Political …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research suggests that liberals are more complex than conservatives. However, it may
be that liberals are not more complex in general, but rather only more complex on certain …

In search of the cognitively complex person: Is there a meaningful trait component of cognitive complexity?

SR Woodard, L Chan… - Personality and Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have long assumed that complex thinking is determined by both situational
factors and stable, trait-based differences. However, although situational influences on …

Preventing violent extremism through value complexity: Being Muslim being British

J Liht, S Savage - Journal of Strategic Security, 2013 - JSTOR
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 …

Are US presidents becoming less rhetorically complex? Evaluating the integrative complexity of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in historical context

LG Conway III, A Zubrod - Journal of language and social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Are US political leaders becoming simpler in their rhetoric? To evaluate, we place the two
most recent Presidents' integrative complexity against a historical context for three different …

The utility of narratives for promoting radicalization: The case of the Animal Liberation Front

K Braddock - Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Although terrorism scholars have begun to recognize the role of communication in the
promotion of radicalization, there have been few (if any) studies to explore the radicalizing …

Validating automated integrative complexity: Natural language processing and the Donald Trump test

LG Conway, KR Conway… - Journal of Social and …, 2020 - jspp.psychopen.eu
Computer algorithms that analyze language (natural language processing systems) have
seen a great increase in usage recently. While use of these systems to score key constructs …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluations of countering violent extremism programs: Linking success to content, approach, setting, and participants

W Charkawi, K Dunn, AM Bliuc - International Journal of Law, Crime and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the September 11 attacks, prevention and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)
programs have rapidly increased worldwide, garnering significant interest among …

Understanding what makes terrorist groups' propaganda effective: An integrative complexity analysis of ISIL and Al Qaeda

SC Houck, MA Repke, LG Conway III - Journal of Policing …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) became an increasingly powerful
terrorist organisation in a relatively short period of time, drawing more recruits than its former …

The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms

LG Conway III, JD McFarland… - … of Theoretical Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Left‐wing authoritarianism (LWA) has a controversial history in psychology. Some
researchers have expressed skepticism about the existence of LWA, whereas others have …

Al-Qaeda's propaganda decoded: A psycholinguistic system for detecting variations in terrorism ideology

SJ Cohen, A Kruglanski, MJ Gelfand… - … and political violence, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We describe a novel hybrid method of content analysis that combines the speed of
computerized text analysis with the contextual sensitivity of human raters, and apply it to …