Aversive conditions alone cannot predict who becomes a terrorist

Evidence

According to this view, people are driven to violence by aversive life conditions characterized by poverty, social inequities, humiliation, and oppression. Theories that try to predict terrorism from the environment alone tend to overpredict terrorist proclivity because, except for a small number, people living under conditions of unrelenting misery do not resort to terroristic violence. It is not that personal and environmental factors do not contribute to the adoption of violent means. They do. But they operate through an intricate mix of determinants. As we noted in chapter 1, human behavior is a product of the complex interplay of personal attributes, behavioral proclivities, and environmental influences. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s social-conservatism and authoritarianism claims: both Cooper’s argument and Bandura converge on rejecting single-factor environmental determinism of harmful political behavior. — connects to: Uncertainty alone rarely drives violent extremist willingness. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 231
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2123