De-radicalization is theorized as identity reconfiguration away from the extremist group

Evidence

Finally, identity was also proposed as a key element for de-radicalization: shifts in life priorities, psychological and physical well-being, or group dynamics, can lead to changes in identification, such that individuals no longer define themselves by the extremist group or ideology, thereby reducing the risk of being triggered to act on behalf of said group or ideology. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 20

Categorization

• XREF: The reverse-direction claim (identity as buffer) that complicates a one-way negative-identity mechanism and matters for the reader’s disconfirmation sweep. — connects to: The moratorium phase frees extremists to pursue identity questions without the group’s framework — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 430