Need for Chaos and Dehumanization are Robustly Associated with Support for Partisan Violence, While Political Measures are Not

AP Landry, JN Druckman, R Willer - Political Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Recent, high-profile acts of partisan violence have stimulated interest among academics and
the public in the etiology of support for such violence. Here, we report the results of a study …

How Radio Affects Violent Conflict: New Evidence from Rwanda

H Nyseth Nzitatira, T Billing… - American Sociological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have long debated how radio broadcasts affected the dynamics of the 1994
genocide in Rwanda, with some arguing that the radio was highly consequential, and others …

When truth trumps facts: Studies on partisan moral flexibility in American politics

M Kim, O Hahl, E Poskanzer… - American Journal of …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article presents results from a series of online surveys—conducted among American
voters during and after the Trump administration—that show how voters from both parties …

Curiously footnoted conceptualizations of agency

S Hitlin - The Future of Agency: Between Autonomy and …, 2025 - emerald.com
Amasyali and van de Berg's discussions of Agency were edifying and scholarly, but
curiously sideline some of the very pockets of sociology that might most fully address their …

Moral status–human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence

T Michel - European Journal of International Relations, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Beginning with early studies in the 1970s, dehumanisation has become a key feature in
attempts to grasp the fundamental dynamics and conditions under which mass atrocities …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing dehumanization theory, modern media, and an intervention tournament to reduce support for retributive war crimes

AP Landry, K Fincher, N Barr, NP Brosowsky… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
We demonstrate how psychological scientists can curate rich-yet-accessible media to
intervene on conflict-escalating attitudes during the earliest stages of violent conflicts …

Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence

A Luft, J Subotić - Social Science History, 2024 - cambridge.org
In recent years, social scientists have “(re) discovered history” by visiting archives, collecting
documents, and analyzing their findings to address concerns about the causes and …

The Moral Foundations of Christian Nationalism

K Goff, E Silver, J Iceland - Sociology of Religion, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Why does Christian Nationalism (CN) resonate with some Americans but not
others? We employ Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) to fill this gap. MFT posits that …

Understanding the Relationship between Violence and Drug Use among School Students: Pathway to Peace Education

MS Ashfaq, MN Khan - Pakistan Social Sciences Review, 2024 - ojs.pssr.org.pk
Understanding the Relationship between Violence and Drug Use among School Students:
Pathway to Peace Education Page 1 P-ISSN 2664-0422 Pakistan Social Sciences Review …

التجريد من الإنسانية: نقطة التحول للإرهاب

عبد المنعم شحاتة محمود - المجلة العربية للدراسات الأمنية, 2024‎ - journals.nauss.edu.sa
تلقي هذه الدراسة الضوء على الكيفية التي يرى بها المتطرفون أيديولوجيا معارضيهم، وتستعرض
الآليات النفسية لهذه النظرة وهي: التقييم الاجتماعي كآلية تحكم معرفي وتنظيم سلوك من خلال ربط …