Exposure to diverse outgroups helped deradicalize former extremists
Evidence
Exposure to diverse populations played a critical role in helping to deradicalize and reorient a number of former extremists in the study. This suggests that diversityexposure efforts could be more systematically exploited to limit the risk of radicalization or possibly deradicalize already extremist members. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 62
Categorization
- XREF: Direct evidentiary input to testing the withdrawal-of-conflict hypothesis: diverse exposure to former outgroup members, not moral confrontation, is what interviewees report as changing them. — connects to: Leaving extremism requires bridging relationships that scaffold a new identity — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 618; Encountering hated groups treating one normally dismantles extremists’ stereotypes. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 418; Cultural alienation and marginalization predict extremism across both minority and majority groups. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 219 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Encountering hated groups treating one normally dismantles extremists’ stereotypes.
#expands(0.89) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 418 - Accepting relationships with out-group members model new identity structures for exiting extremists.
#expands(0.87) — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 475 - Common external threats can reduce prejudice among ordinary outgroups
#corroborates(0.78) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 24 - Cultural alienation and marginalization predict extremism across both minority and majority groups.
#qualifies(0.72) — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 219