Some identity needs reduce rather than increase violent extremism

Evidence

Finally, since, surprisingly, a number of identity needs (e.g. the need to belong) were linked to a decrease in violent extremism, it is be worthwhile to explore how they could be used to protect people from radicalizing. For example, it has been argued that positively reinterpreting uncertainty as a challenge that people can master through cooperation instead of hostility may prevent people from radicalizing. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the earlier-chapter finding that the need to belong sometimes shows null or inverse effects on extremism. — connects to: Alternative identities reduce violent behavior even when ideology persists. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 226; The need to belong sometimes shows null or inverse effects on extremism. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 237; Frustrated identity needs have never been shown to precede rather than follow radicalization — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 253 (+5 more)

Related

• The need to belong sometimes shows null or inverse effects on extremism. (similarity 0.89)
• Both personal identity diffusion and integrative life-change identities affect extremism in single unreplicated studies (similarity 0.87)
• Terrorism can reaffirm ethnic roots rather than stem from identity rejection (similarity 0.87)
• Frustrated identity needs have never been shown to precede rather than follow radicalization (similarity 0.87)
• Identity fusion is the most statistically robust identity predictor of extremism (similarity 0.86)
• Integrated or dual identities can turn protective effects into extremism risk (similarity 0.86)
• Alternative identities reduce violent behavior even when ideology persists. (similarity 0.85)
• Uncertainty alone does not cause violent extremism without moderating factors (similarity 0.84)
• A single core need drives both entry into and exit from extremism. (similarity 0.83)
• Separatist terrorism offers positive identity within a minority community, not just negative rejection (similarity 0.83)
• Personal-developmental identity processes remain nearly untested in quantitative radicalization research (similarity 0.83)
• Identity diffusion predicts openness to all three extremist ideologies. (similarity 0.82)
• No single factor robustly drives radicalization across the sampled extremist cases (similarity 0.82)
• Uncertainty alone rarely drives violent extremist willingness. (similarity 0.82)
• Attempting to quit extremism can itself escalate a person into a worse group (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Terrorism can reaffirm ethnic roots rather than stem from identity rejection #exemplifies (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4128
• Separatist terrorism offers positive identity within a minority community, not just negative rejection #exemplifies (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4127
• Both personal identity diffusion and integrative life-change identities affect extremism in single unreplicated studies #corroborates (0.75) — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 254
• Accepting relationships with out-group members model new identity structures for exiting extremists. #exemplifies (0.75) — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 475