Even though religious extremism is currently a hotly debated topic, it is often reduced to a
unidimensional construct that is linked to religious violence. We argue that the contemporary …

Background The risk factors for radicalization and terrorism represent a key research issue.
While numerous data on the sociological, political, and criminological profiles of radicalized …

A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing
your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life. When …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

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 …

In the last decade, political protest events have been rising in Western democracies. At the
same time, there has been a steady increase in the diffusion of conspiracy theories in …

We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating
participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants in the …

This article aims to explore if social exclusion can constitute a pathway to radicalization, and
if individual level of sensitivity of rejection moderates the effect of social exclusion. Humans …

Selon la théorie de la quête de sens (Kruglanski et al., 2009) et le modèle 3N (Webber &
Kruglanski, 2018), l'extrémisme violent est le produit d'une quête de sens déclenchée par un …

This is a stand-alone reflection on meaning written by two scholars who recently edited a
special issue on that topic. The first of four organizing questions concerns the nature of …