Scott Atran
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Marcos-Vidal L, Gil-Buitrago H, Cisma I, Hendricks R, Atran S, Pretus C
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39776065
Witnessing rejection against one's group can have similar impacts on psychological distress and aggression as experiencing rejection personally. In this study, we investigated the neural activity patterns of group rejection...
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Gomez A, Vazquez A, Atran S
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2023 Jun;
120(24):e2303614120.
PMID: 37279272
In 2022, the "Will to Fight Act" was referred to the US Congress urging attention to measuring and assessing will to fight. That Bill was not enacted, and evaluation efforts...
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Gomez A, Atran S, Chinchilla J, Vazquez A, Lopez-Rodriguez L, Paredes B, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2022 Feb;
12(1):2596.
PMID: 35173239
Is terrorism just another form of criminal activity, as many nations' justice systems assume? We offer an initial answer using face-to-face interviews and structured surveys in thirty-five Spanish prisons. Recent...
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Tossell C, Gomez A, de Visser E, Vazquez A, Donadio B, Metcalfe A, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2022 Feb;
119(6).
PMID: 35131848
Across 11 studies involving six countries from four continents ( = 3,285), we extend insights from field investigations in conflict zones to offline and online surveys to show that personal...
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Atran S
Science
. 2021 Sep;
373(6559):1063.
PMID: 34516866
As the Taliban rapidly crushed US-backed Afghan forces, many politicians, pundits, and military leaders expressed surprise at having overestimated an ally’s will to fight and underestimated the enemy’s. Similarly in...
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Atran S
Annu Rev Psychol
. 2020 Sep;
72:471-501.
PMID: 32898462
Fear of transnational terrorism, along with a revitalization of sectarian nationalism, is sundering social and political consensus across the world. Can psychology help? The focus of this review is on...
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Atran S
Curr Opin Psychol
. 2020 Jun;
35:103-107.
PMID: 32485651
The aim and effect of transnational terrorism today - stemming from both Islamic revivalism and ethno-nationalist resurgence - are to fragment social consensus by forcing people into opposing camps, with...
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Vazquez A, Lopez-Rodriguez L, Martinez M, Atran S, Gomez A
Pers Soc Psychol Bull
. 2020 Mar;
46(10):1461-1475.
PMID: 32163015
Devoted actors-those who share sacred values with a group with which they are fused-are particularly willing to self-sacrifice to their group or values when they are threatened. Here, we explore...
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Atran S
Behav Brain Sci
. 2019 Nov;
42:e193.
PMID: 31744587
What impelled the Industrial Revolution's spectacular economic growth? Life History Theory, Baumard argues, explains how England's world-supreme affluence psychologically fostered innovation; moreover, wherever similar affluence abounds, a "civilizing process" bringing...
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Hamid N, Pretus C, Atran S, Crockett M, Ginges J, Sheikh H, et al.
R Soc Open Sci
. 2019 Jul;
6(6):181585.
PMID: 31312469
Violent intergroup conflicts are often motivated by commitments to abstract ideals such as god or nation, so-called 'sacred' values that are insensitive to material trade-offs. There is scant knowledge of...