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The Personality of Extremists: Examining Violent and Non-Violent Defense of Muslims

2020-03-16

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<p>Many early explanations for violent extremism focused on clinical dispositions, withpoor empirical support. In the current work, we argued that violent extremists might be “normal” in a clinical sense while nonetheless bearing certain personality signatures. Results from five studies among four general population of Muslims and a sample of former Mujahideen suggest that both violent and non-violent behavioral i...

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Literature Corpus work: 45972dd8-c2b7-5f61-8b5c-c01b5b8bebd9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/kry38

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