Applying Psychological Theories of Personality, Identity, and Intergroup Conflict to Radical Violence: A Case Study of Extremist Behavior
This paper aims to address possible psychoanalytical explanations for the heinous acts in which terrorists, particularly ISIS, engage. It focuses on Harold D. Lasswell’s principles of the id, ego, and superego as well as Tajfel and Turner’s social identity theory. Within the framework of these two t...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2018
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| Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1890 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2995&context=cmc_theses |