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Teams from around the world will come together to play, learn, research and practice their collaborative skills. This is an opportunity for you to come together as a team and join others that are dedicated to deepening relationships, finding shared purpose, and enhancing group effectiveness.
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Extremist Groups Require the Greatest Trust Among Members
Good signals are those which clearly differentiate membership in one group versus another; even stronger are those which are also costly to express, and therefore hard to fake.
Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive
Why Terrorists Are Misunderstood
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Terrorism and the Apocalyptic
Apocalyptic ideas motivate much of the most virulent political violence in the world, stirring what can be called the “fundamentalist mindset.”
The Extremist in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Era of Anarchist Terrorism
Terrorism is used by those who do not have the means to pursue more conventional or moderate strategies to achieve their goals.
In the Eye of the Beholder: Parochial Altruism, Radicalization, and Extremism
Radicalization is an inherently relational concept. One can only be radical in relation to someone who is not. Similarly, one cannot be extreme without an accepted center norm. But the center is not a fixed state. It shifts and changes across time, place, circumstance, and culture.
What is Radicalization?
Why Extremism Isn’t the Real Issue
Extremism as Defense
Extremist Violence Has Its Roots in Morality, Not Ideology
The ideology behind extremist violence looks remarkably like the “moral sentiments” of empathy, indignation, and shame that are presumed to confer fitness advantages in human social interactions.
Conservative Extremists Are Afraid of Threats That Don't Exist
Crucially, the pattern of heightened reactivity and credulity toward potential threats characteristic of the conservative mind is not associated with fearfulness or timidity, but with confidence in the ability to triumph through force.