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A potential explanation for self-radicalisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Justin E. Lane Open the ORCID record for Justin E. Lane [Opens in a new window] ,
F. LeRon Shults  and
Wesley J. Wildman
Justin E. Lane
Affiliation:
Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, United Kingdom. justin.lane@spc.ox.ac.ukhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin_Lane NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway LEVYNA, Masaryk University, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic Center for Mind and Culture, Boston, MA 02215. www.mindandculture.org
F. LeRon Shults
Affiliation:
NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway Institute of Religion, Philosophy and History, University of Agder, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway. leron.shults@uia.nohttp://www.leronshults.com/
Wesley J. Wildman
Affiliation:
Center for Mind and Culture, Boston, MA 02215. www.mindandculture.org Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA 02215. wwildman@bu.edu
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Abstract

We believe that Whitehouse's model could be extended in a way that can help us make sense of self-radicalised individuals who are not active in cliques. We believe that conceptual ties may be important to this process and present a brief analysis of a database collected by the national consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), to suggest future research to complement Whitehouse's proposal.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e207
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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