Highlights•Identifies a three-factor model of radicalization and deradicalization.•Joining
extremist organizations serves a motive to earn personal significance.•Ideology and groups …

The present review identifies a variety of tactics that are often employed by ideologies to
promote and/or justify political violence. The review builds on a social psychological …

The present studies examined the hypothesis that loss of personal significance fuels
extremism via the need for cognitive closure. Situations of significance loss—those that …

Quest for significance theory (Kruglanski et al., 2013; Kruglanski, Jasko, Chernikova, Dugas,
& Webber 2017) states that extreme behavior for an ideological cause is more likely under …

We present a psychological model of extremism based on the concept of motivational
imbalance whereby a given need gains dominance and overrides other basic concerns. In …

We conducted a systematic review of the contemporary scientific literature to (a) identify
consensus, where it exists, regarding factors associated with membership in terrorist …

Research into the roots of ideological extremism has traditionally focused on the social,
economic, and demographic factors that make people vulnerable to adopting hostile …

Despite the extraordinary social and political consequences often associated with terrorist
violence, as well as our responses to it, psychological research on terrorist behavior is …

Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic induces in people both uncertainty and angst, the latter
may not be a direct consequence of uncertainty as such, but rather of the possible negative …

Abstract According to the Significance Quest Theory (Kruglanski et al., 2009) and the 3N
model (Webber & Kruglanski, 2018), violent extremism is the product of a quest for …