Leaving an extremist group can be physical, psychological, or both

Evidence

Additionally, some researchers distinguish between both psychological and physical forms of disengagement (Horgan, 2009). For instance, whereas physical disengagement refers to voluntary or involuntary exit from an extremist organization, psychological disengagement refers to disappointments and disillusionments about the extremist organization that hasten exit. — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: A crisp conceptual distinction between two meanings of disengagement that in everyday speech conflates.
• XREF: connects to: Disengagement from extremism is a recursive process, not a linear one. — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 320; Stopping extremism and abandoning its beliefs are distinct forms of exit — 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:…, 189

Related

• Disengagement from extremism is a recursive process, not a linear one. (similarity 0.90)
• Stopping extremism and abandoning its beliefs are distinct forms of exit (similarity 0.88)
• Many extremists proactively seek out reasons and philosophy to abandon radicalism. (similarity 0.85)
• A single core need drives both entry into and exit from extremism. (similarity 0.83)
• Attempting to quit extremism can itself escalate a person into a worse group (similarity 0.82)
• Physical separation from a group precedes rather than follows ideological change (similarity 0.81)
• Interventions by individual people helped most sampled extremists exit or deradicalize. (similarity 0.81)
• Political events can re-trigger radical feelings years after an extremist exit. (similarity 0.78)
• A former extremist relapsed identity growth to distancing himself from exit-program support (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Stopping extremism and abandoning its beliefs are distinct forms of exit #expands (0.95) — 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, 189