The staircase to terrorism: a psychological exploration.

By F. Moghaddam. American Psychologist, 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Relative Deprivation (2012, background): “Researchers have invoked RD to explain phenomena ranging from poor physical health (Adler, Epel, Castellazzo, & Ickovics, 2000) to participation in collective protest (Newton, Mann, & Geary, 1980) and even to susceptibility to terrorist recruitment (Moghaddam, 2005).”
Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity (2008, background): “At a time in which threats to security are often framed in terms of identity (e.g., the individual “terrorist”; see Moghaddam, 2004), the empirical study of identity formation calls us to consider the rich complexity of individual lives and to refocus the dichotomous lens through which we are often…”
Social interaction and psychological pathways to political engagement and extremism (2014, background): “Similarly, in the political violence literature, scholars have emphasized the incremental nature of engagement with violence, variously utilizing a staircase (Moghaddam, 2005) or conveyer-belt metaphor (Moskalenko & McCauley, 2009).”
Protective Factors Against Extremism and Violent Radicalization: A Systematic Review of Research (2018, neutral): “Although various phases of radicalization have been proposed (e.g., Moghaddam, 2005; Silber & Bhatt, 2007), the respective processes that may begin with ideological interest and proceed over group afﬁliation to violent action are neither deterministic nor uniform (Borum, 2011; Jensen et al., 2016).”
The Radicalization Puzzle: A Theoretical Synthesis of Empirical Approaches to Homegrown Extremism (2015, background): “Earlier studies that framed radicalization as a linear process that proceeds in stages were challenged empirically and analytically.(13) Subsequent works treated radicalization as an evolutionary, nonlinear phenomenon that emerges out of a convergence of several “predisposing risk factors” (Horgan);”
Exposure to Extremist Online Content Could Lead to Violent Radicalization:A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence (2018, neutral): “…fromradicalizationresearchhighlightthevulnerabil-ityofadolescentstonarrativesthataddresspersonal identitycrises,theneedforgroupbelonging,andthe searchforapositivesocialidentity(e.g.,McCauley &Moskalenko,2009;Moghaddam,2005;Wik-torowicz,2004)–domainsthatarealsorelevant fordevelopmentalscientists.”