The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism

By Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele J. Gelfand, J. Bélanger, Anna Sheveland, Malkanthi Hetiarachchi, R. Gunaratna. 2014

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia (2021, background): “Specifically, because it portrays the majority population as victims whose ethnicity is under existential threat, it may help to justify violence as a necessary mean to avert such threats (Bandura, 1999; Kruglanski et al., 2014).”
Quest for significance and violent extremism : the case of domestic radicalization (2017, background): “These results are consistent with the quest for significance theory (Kruglanski et al., 2014), according to which variables that decrease the sense of personal significance should produce similar effects—that is, they should be related to a higher probability of using extreme (in this case violent)…”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “Primary among these explanations are individuals’ level of identification with the violent group (Hogg & Adelman, 2013; Swann, Gomez, Seyle, Morales, & Huici, 2009) and also a desire for personal significance in one’s life, which has been theorized to motivate some group members to engage in violent”
The Making of Violent Extremists (2018, background): “The nature of the dominant need that prompts that kind of behavior, and conditions under which that behavior is selected to addressing the need, are treated in our significance quest theory (SQT; Jasko, LaFree, & Kruglanski, 2016; Kruglanski et al., 2013, 2014; Webber et al., 2017).”
Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies (2019, result): “This argument is consistent with significance-quest theory, which proposes that an important reason why people become radicalized is a quest for significance—the need to feel important and respected by supporting a meaningful cause (Kruglanski et al., 2014).”
Modeling Radicalization Phenomena in Heterogeneous Populations (2015, background): “In case of a conflict core agents behave as inflexible about the issue.”
CORRELATES OF VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2018, background): “…2018 233 and extremism, researchers have borrowed insights from political science (Abrahms, 2012; Schmid and Jongman, 1988), psychology (Horgan, 2005; Kruglanski et al., 2014), sociology (Boyns and Ballard, 2004; Oberschall, 2004), and communications (Corman, Trethewey, and Goodall, 2008;…”