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| Title | Publication Date | Source | Primary Author | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mirage of The Jihad | 21 Sep 2022 | International Journal of Social Psychology | Ángel Gómez | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Angel-Gomez-The-Mirage-of-The-Jihad.pdf |
| Bounded Confidence: How AI Could Exacerbate Social Media’s Homophily Problem | October 19, 2022 | New England Journal of Public Policy | Dylan Weber, Scott Atran, and Rich Davis | scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1827&context=nejpp |
| The COVID Communication Breakdown – How to Fix Public Health Messaging | October 4, 2021 | Foreign Affairs | Baruch Fischhoff | www.foreignaffairs.com/print/node/1127877 |
| Science: The Will to Fight | 3 September 2021 | Science Magazine | Scott Atran | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl9949 |
| Podcast: What goes on inside the brain of a terrorist? | August 19, 2021 | Genetic Literacy Project | Lydia Chain, Malia Politzer | geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/08/19/podcast-what-goes-on-inside-the-brain-of-a-terrorist-this-cognitive-scientist-made-it-his-mission-to-find-out/ |
| An Interview with Ángel Gómez | 22 July 2021 | Madri + d Foundation for Knowledge | Madri + d Foundation for Knowledge | www.madrimasd.org/notiweb/entrevistas/angel-gomez-no-es-que-en-espana-tengamos-menos-capacidad-cientifica-que-otros-paises-es-que-tenemos-menos-recursos |
| The Neuroscience of ‘Devoted Actors’ Within Extremist Groups | March 1, 2021 | Newlines Magazine | Nafees Hamid | newlinesmag.com/argument/the-neuroscience-of-devoted-actors-within-extremist-groups/ |
| Why People Enter and Embrace Violent Groups | 07 January 2021 | Frontiers in Psychology | Ángel Gómez, Mercedes Martínez, Francois Alexi Martel, Lucía López-Rodríguez, Alexandra Vázquez, Juana Chinchilla, Borja Paredes, Mal Hettiarachchi, Nafees Hamid and William B. Swann | www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.614657/full |
| Obituary to Yun Reginaldo Chayax Huex, Itza Maya Leader | 07 October, 2020 | Scott Atran | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/obituary-to-yun-reginaldo-chayax-huex/ |
| On the Psychology of Extremism: How Motivational Imbalance Breeds Intemperance | September 2020 | Psychological Review | Arie W. Kruglanski | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Arie-Extremism-PsychReview-20-1.pdf |
| Psychology of Transnational Terrorism and Extreme Political Conflict | September 2020 | Annual Review of Psychology | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Published-Atran_annurev-psych-v72_2021.pdf |
| Inside the Dangerous Mission to Understand What Makes Extremists Tick—and How to Change Their Minds | SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 | TIME Magazine | BY EMILY FELDMAN AND MALIA POLITZER | time.com/5881567/extremism-violence-causes-research/ |
| Recent advances, misconceptions, untested assumptions, and future research agenda for identity fusion theory | 23 April 2020 | Wiley Online Library | Angel Gómez, Juana Chinchilla, Alexandra Vázquez, Lucía López-Rodríguez, Borja Paredes, Mercedes Martínez | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Gomez-et-al_2020-1.pdf |
| Pandemic: A Global Opportunity for National Renewal or Deterioration | April 20, 2020 | The Evolution Institute | Scott Atran | evolution-institute.org/pandemic-a-global-opportunity-for-national-renewal-or-deterioration/ |
| Simulating Combat to Explore Motivations Behind Why Military Members Make Costly Sacrifices | April 2020 | 2020 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) | Bianca T. Donadio, Jon Novak, Marshall Wheeler, Angel Gomez, Scott Atran, Ewart J. de Viss, Chad C.Tossell | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Will-to-Fight-SIEDS-2020.pdf |
| God Values the Lives of My Out-Group More Than I Do: Evidence From Fiji and Israel | April 6, 2020 | Social Psychological and Personality Science | Michael H. Pasek, Crystal Shackleford, Julia M. Smith, Allon Vishkin, Anne Lehner, Jeremy Ginges | journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550620904516 |
| Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability | March 12, 2020 | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Society of Personality and Social Psychology) | Alexandra Vázquez , Lucía López-Rodríguez, Mercedes Martínez, Scott Atran, and Ángel Gómez | journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167220907466 |
| Measures of Devotion to ISIS and other Fighting and Radicalized Groups | 9 March 2020 | Current Opinion in Psychology | Scott Atran | www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X20300294?via%3Dihub |
| Privileged Rebels: A Longitudinal Analysis of Distinctive Economic Traits of Catalonian Secessionism | 15 February 2020 | Genealogy, Volume 4, Issue 1 (March 2020) | Josep M. Oller 1, Albert Satorra, Adolf Tobeña | www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/1/19 |
| How Catalonia’s Push for Independence Has Scrambled Spanish Politics | 2019/12/13 | Washington Post (Paywall) | Nafees Hamid, Clara Pretus and Hammad Sheikh | www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/13/how-catalonias-push-independence-has-scrambled-spanish-politics/ |
| Impact of Legal Punishment of Nationalist Political Leaders on Social Polarization | November 30th, 2019 | Artis International | Clara Pretus, Nafees Hamid, Hammad Sheikh | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019Nov26_ArtisReport_CatalanConflict-1.pdf |
| This Is Your Brain on Terrorism – The Science Behind a Death Wish | December 2, 2019 | Foreign Affairs | Scott Atran | www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-12-02/your-brain-terrorism |
| Pakistan is harnessing Western media in the wake of the Kashmir crisis | September 6, 2019 | Axios | Lawrence Pintak | www.axios.com/pakistan-is-harnessing-western-media-in-the-wake-of-the-kashmir-crisis-5366b22d-9e87-4e66-8c0e-815724a792c8.html |
| I met Robert Mugabe in the late 1970s. | September 6, 2019 | Vox | Lawrence Pintak | www.vox.com/world/2019/9/6/20853400/robert-mugabe-dead-zimbabwe-president-zanu-pf |
| Mapping the Extremist and Counter Extremist Online Groups Bangladesh | March 8, 2017 | Presentation | Artis Looking Glass Team | seans11.sg-host.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LookingGlass-Bangladesh-compressed.pdf |
| Interview with Nafees Hamid: Brain scan: radical Islamists show lower ability for rational thought | June 13, 2019 | RT UK | Interview with Nafees Hamid | www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4j2X-Zac70 |
| The neuroscience of terrorism: how we convinced a group of radicals to let us scan their brains | June 12, 2019 | The Conversation | Nafees Hamid | theconversation.com/the-neuroscience-of-terrorism-how-we-convinced-a-group-of-radicals-to-let-us-scan-their-brains-114855 |
| Study: Lower levels of brain activity in cognitive control and reasoning areas when focusing on sacred values | June 12, 2019 | Medical Xpress | Bob Yirka | medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-brain-cognitive-areas-focusing-sacred.html |
| Why only fellow jihadists can change a suicide bomber’s mind | June 12, 2019 | The Times (UK) | Tom Whipple | www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-only-fellow-jihadists-can-change-a-suicide-bombers-mind-lx658jvpx |
| The First-Ever Brain Scans Of Jihadists Show How Radicalisation Alters The Mind | June 12, 2019 | BuzzFeed.News | Hazel Shearing | www.buzzfeed.com/hazelshearing/jihadist-brain-scans-radicalisation?bftwuk&utm_term=4ldqpgm#4ldqpgm |
| Neuroimaging ‘will to fight’ for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate | June 12, 2019 | Royal Society Open Science | Nafees Hamid | royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181585 |
| Brain scans show members of militant Islamist group ‘have a reduced capacity for rational thought’ | June 11, 2019 | Daily Mail (UK) | Colin Fernandez | www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7129537/Scientists-scanned-European-al-Qaeda-supporters-brains-reduced-activity.html |
| BRAIN SCANS SHOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ASK AL-QAEDA SYMPATHIZERS ABOUT THEIR SACRED VALUES | June 11, 2019 | Newsweek | Hannah Osborne | www.newsweek.com/brain-scans-al-qaeda-sympathizers |
| Press Release on Cutting-Edge Radicalisation Research: Explaining the Cognitive Triggers for Extremist Violence Through Brain Scanning | June 5, 2019 | Artis International | Artis International | |
| Combating violent extremism cannot be limited to just security | May 10, 2019 | The Daily Star | Shamsin Ahmed | www.thedailystar.net/opinion/perspective/news/combating-violent-extremism-cannot-be-limited-just-security-1741189 |
| Ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal interactions underlie will to fight and die for a cause | May 6, 2019 | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | Clara Pretus | watermark.silverchair.com/nsz034.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAmIwggJeBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggJPMIICSwIBADCCAkQGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMxMLifNx2GlrWMESnAgEQgIICFdYIPbJ_QCcoX6oIdEGcdTjJhNYbgw7Quvr9b3gsq1szD1Bq-noPhy3JiW0RGHLbMwdGnmbWjp0xA2W5VvtHTJ_Z4t6NbQGcXTRe6smhjlGzjV-9Ew16t1VA1-xgpBosi-NbAU3eyOR_RHXQzZtr3wGd0kpAUAgtDJkRqH816cSzI2Cd9qYJ4A4xsistksdWpggVw6pGV-Ay1MIFaks3jb3iBIDftmAXJKgiMESvIdTCuFPbVdVMawnrgXcFBexnqu9rxpWi3_Aa4fMqeSt9Zjwf6PkWXXGL105j71_mQWq3BHJBs60wcOf-Ai-sINEpvigAt32myq4dXYXyTHJBYIPXk1tgidw-7dNwUkEeiI3NWT7HpdbKwcffExSuYKujQAdB-xl0vLBHkuIgsAjsM4WcTrraSH3CFnuln-4cDDGhtXl_B4iIkTquPZ0p3mZjWtNxrrzPA-q52O8MsFxp_NUPP9aJiKWz27yqdzr5tWG2B_Im6WE6ySu94KBiPLxQbJNQ34I3EmW41XAIl2WrYk3wGlTxxE3G9f1pV1w8LYGOVYC6lchk3EVjqoXK5N-QdYliIOF3scb6-WC9WP8EUd8_GE7dHvX3hZZh--u7yLHY8h_uwfx24iP4pHvGLJiuM0HBEMjEM8xEqCwcj8fRvGpZceXU3Rw5c7n6JQFyb37LGqJveg3F8iG4_IAMvZGi6c5DnHmu |
| The Crisis of Cultures and the Vitality of Values: A Commentary on Emmanuel Macron’s Declaration of the Need for Religion | May 3, 2019 | New England Journal of Public Policy | Scott Atran | scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol31/iss1/8/ |
| Djihadistes et terroristes d’extrême droite, des alliés objectifs | April 25, 2019 | L'Obs [France] | Scott Atman | www.nouvelobs.com/monde/20190425.OBS12084/tribune-djihadistes-et-terroristes-d-extreme-droite-des-allies-objectifs.html |
| From Christchurch to Colombo, Islamists and the far right are playing a deadly duet | April 25, 2019 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/christchurch-colombo-islamists-far-right-sri-lanka |
| Prisons are a hotspot for radicalization | March 6, 2019 | France24 | Interview with Nafees Hamid | www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/nafees-hamid-prisons-are-hotspots-for-radicalization/vi-BBUsMgk?fbclid=IwAR1WcA3tjvb1APVNghxHJJwDnP04ewStdhkMaUU0TqbhnsCE2NHDf4d9tns |
| Secessionists vs. Unionists in Catalonia: Mood, Emotional Profiles and Beliefs about Secession Perspectives in Two Confronted Communities | February 21, 2019 | Psychology | Josep Maria Oller | diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/129883/1/687323.pdf |
| The moral logic of political violence | January 11, 2019 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jeremy Ginges | www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661318302602 |
| What Motivates Devoted Actors | December 27, 2018 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Scott Atran & Angel Gomez | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/what-motivates-devoted-actors-to-extreme-sacrifice-identity-fusion-or-sacred-values/9C4C879FEC599F3EE665C2BF8689FD79 |
| Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism | 21 December, 2018 | Frontiers in Psychology | Clara Pretus, Nafees Hamid, Hammad Sheikh | www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02462/full |
| The Group Dynamics That Make Terrorist Teams Work | December 19, 2018 | The Conversation | Matthias Spitzmuller | theconversation.com/the-group-dynamics-that-make-terrorist-teams-work-104295 |
| Self-sacrifice for a cause: The role of ideas and beliefs in motivating human conflict | December 13, 2018 | PsyArXiv | Jeremy Ginges | psyarxiv.com/azsr7/ |
| Don’t Just Counter-Message, Counter-Engage | 28 November, 2018 | ICCT, The Hague | Nafees Hamid | icct.nl/publication/dont-just-counter-message-counter-engage/ |
| For Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan, We Need at Least a Modest Bargain with India | July 23, 2018 | RUSI.org | Whit Mason | rusi.org/commentary/sustainable-peace-afghanistan-and-pakistan-we-need-least-modest-bargain-india |
| My Kurdish Oppressor | April 16, 2018 | The New York Review of Books | Hoshang Waziri | www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/16/my-kurdish-oppressor/ |
| Progress Study for UNSCR 2250 on Youth, Peace & Security: Head’s Up | 24 March, 2018 | Marc Sommers | www.linkedin.com/pulse/progress-study-unscr-2250-youth-peace-security-heads-up-marc-sommers/?published=t | |
| Can you look into the mind of a terrorist? | February 8, 2018 | Channel News Asia | Channel News Asia | video.toggle.sg/en/video/series/conversation-with-s13/ep20/566676 |
| Psychology of Radicalization | February 7, 2018 | Channel News Asia | Channel News Asia | www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NyIGNJrEo&feature=youtu.be |
| ¿Por qué mueren y por qué matan los yihadistas? | December1, 2017 | Huffington Post | Carmen Rengel | www.huffingtonpost.es/2017/12/01/por-que-mueren-y-por-que-matan-los-yihadistas-investigadores-de-la-uned-logran-hablar-con-ellos-y-estudiar-su-devocion_a_23293979/ |
| Immigration and Terror | November 17, 2017 | Countering Violent Extremism | Charles Kriel | |
| Peace in the Kingdom of Silence | November 17, 2017 | Artis International Internship Program | James Petermeier | |
| Full Circle Talks with Scott Atran | November 15, 2017 | Full Circle, Brussels | Full Circle | www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0H2gXBjNw&feature=youtu.be |
| Jihadism and far-right fanaticism viewed as responses to the same malaise | November 13, 2017 | The Economist | Erasmus | www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2017/11/versions-nihilism?cid1=cust/ddnew/email/n/n/20171113n/owned/n/n/ddnew/n/n/n/neu/Daily_Dispatch/email&etear=dailydispatch |
| Unleashed by globalisation’s dark side and the collapse of communities, radical Islam and the alt-Right share a common cause | November 6, 2017 | AEON | Scott Atran | aeon.co/essays/radical-islam-and-the-alt-right-are-not-so-different |
| L’EI vaincu ? Pas si vite… | October 24, 2017 | Libération | Scott Atran | www.liberation.fr/debats/2017/10/24/l-ei-vaincu-pas-si-vite_1605373 |
| ISIS After the Caliphate | October 19, 2017 | The New York Review of Books | Scott Atran | www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/19/isis-after-the-caliphate/ |
| La pasión secesionista | In Press | Publisher: EDLibros | Adolf Tobeña | libros.economiadigital.es/libros/la-pasion-secesionista/ |
| Why do people die fighting for a cause? | October 15, 2017 | Science News | Science News | www.youtube.com/watch?v=efk1TBL_pDA&feature=youtu.be |
| Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 2: fundamentalism, regression and repair | October 2, 2017 | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy | John Lord Alderdice | www.tandfonline.com/eprint/xuzAzxF76PDNaZcVACui/full |
| Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 1: terrorism as dissolution in a complex system | October 2, 2017 | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy | John Lord Alderdice | www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ErV56EkqdDk4Dxz6qgSJ/full |
| How Spain Misunderstood the Catalan Independence Movement | October 1, 2017 | The Atlantic | Nafees Hamid | www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/catalan-referendum-spain-independence/541656/ |
| Terrorism: The Lessons of Barcelona | September 19, 2017 | The New York Review of Books | Nafees Hamid | www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/19/terrorism-the-lessons-of-barcelona/ |
| Q&A: The AI composer | September 13, 2017 | Nature Human Behavior | Laura Spinney | www.nature.com/nature/journal/v549/n7671/full/549157a.html?foxtrotcallback=true&%3Berror=cookies_not_supported&%3Bcode=d510167e-abf3-4cf9-b501-3081d3e042be |
| Why do people die fighting for a cause? | September 5, 2017 | Science | Matthew Hutson | www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/why-do-people-die-fighting-cause |
| What motivates someone to join the battle in Iraq? | September 5, 2017 | Radio National [ABC Australia] | Fran Kelly | radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgxVLKrEm6?play=true |
| The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict | September 4, 2017 | Nature Human Behavior | Ángel Gómez | www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0193-3#Ack1 |
| What drives ISIS fighters to battle on despite limbs hanging off and how they use it to frighten enemies | September 4, 2017 | The Mirror | Claire Carter | www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-drives-isis-fighters-battle-11088686 |
| The will to fight for and against ISIS | September 4, 2017 | MILTECH [Military Technologies] | Macie J. Heyman | www.military-technologies.net/2017/09/04/the-will-to-fight-for-and-against-isis/ |
| Spiritual convictions and group identities inspire terrorist acts, study finds | September 4, 2017 | Science News | Bruce Bower | www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/isis-spiritual-convictions-group-identities-terrorist-acts |
| What motivates ISIS fighters — and those who fight against them | September 4, 2017 | CNN | Jacqueline Howard | www.cnn.com/2017/09/04/health/isis-fighters-human-behavior-study/index.html |
| Study of Iraq fighters reveals what makes people prepared to die for a cause | September 4, 2017 | The Guardian | Nicola Davis | www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/04/study-of-iraq-fighters-reveals-what-makes-people-prepared-to-die-for-a-cause |
| Barcelona: thuisbasis voor veel Spaanse jihadisten | August 29, 2017 | buitenland eenvandaag (1V TV-Netherlands) | Bram De Waal | buitenland.eenvandaag.nl/tv-items/76295/barcelona_thuisbasis_voor_veel_spaanse_jihadisten |
| Nafees Hamid on Barcelona Attacks | August 18, 2017 | BBC News | BBC Correspondent | www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqOmPb4PUig |
| What Makes a Terrorist? | August 23, 2017 | The New York Review of Books | Nafees Hamid | www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/08/23/what-makes-a-terrorist/ |
| Barcelone-Charlottesville : la crise des cultures | August 22, 2017 | Liberation | Scott Atran | www.liberation.fr/debats/2017/08/22/barcelone-charlottesville-la-crise-des-cultures_1591327 |
| Extremism is surging. To beat it, we need young hearts and minds | August 20, 2017 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/20/extremism-is-surging-to-beat-it-we-need-young-hearts-and-minds |
| Barcelona is a focal point for jihadists in Spain | August 18, 2017 | VRT NIEUWS, DeRedactie.be | Jos De Greef | deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/buitenland/1.3049376 |
| Interview: Nafees Hamid, Terrorism Researcher | August 18, 2017 | Lateline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation | David Lipson | www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2016/s4720969.htm |
| Terrorism Expert In Barcelona Talks About Van Attack Near Las Ramblas | August 17, 2017 | All Things Considered, National Public Radio | Kelly McEvers | www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544259670/terrorism-expert-in-barcelona-talks-about-van-attack-near-las-ramblas |
| Don’t just denounce radicalized youth. Engage with them. | August 15,2017 | The Washington Post | Scott Atran | www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-denounce-radicalized-youth-engage-with-them/2017/08/15/2e514cfa-81d8-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?utm_term=.321bd62ea738#comments |
| Why has this Generation dropped the baton….? | May 29, 2017 | ...in conversation - John, Lord Alderdice's blog | John Alderdice | www.lordalderdice.com/blog/why-has-this-generation-dropped-the-baton/ |
| Scott Atran on Sacred Values | April 3, 2017 | Social Science Space | Social Science Bites | www.socialsciencespace.com/2017/04/scott-atran-sacred-values/ |
| Govts advised about ‘antidotes’ to radicalization at Dubai WGS Summit | February 14, 2016 | Arab Times | www.arabtimesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2017/feb/14/09.pdf | |
| Governments advised about ‘antidotes to radicalization’ at World Government Summit breakout session | February 12, 2017 | MENA Herald | MENA Herald | menaherald.com/en/business/services/governments-advised-antidotes-radicalization-world-government-summit-breakout-session/ |
| Rethinking the War on Terror, with the help of science | February 3, 2017 | The Washington Post | Robert Gebelhoff | www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2017/02/03/rethinking-the-war-on-terror-with-the-help-of-science/?utm_term=.fe1f8fa6cdd1 |
| Experts Call for Evidence-based, Field-driven Terrorism Research | February 2, 2017 | Forensic Magazine | Michelle Taylor | www.forensicmag.com/news/2017/02/experts-call-evidence-based-field-driven-terrorism-research |
| Challenges to Researching Terrorism in the Field | January 27, 2017 | Science | Scott Atran | www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/Atran%20et%20al%20Challenges%20Science%202017.pdf |
| Strategic aspects of cyberattack, attribution, and blame | January 11, 2017 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Benjamin Edwards | www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/PNAS-2017-Edwards-2825-30.pdf |
| The best strategy for cyber-conflict may not be a cyber-strategy | 8-Nov-16 | War on the rocks | Benjamin Runkle | warontherocks.com/2016/11/the-best-strategy-for-cyber-conflict-may-not-be-a-cyber-strategy/ |
| Designing a New AML System | 1-Sep-16 | The Clearing House | Juan Zarate | www.theclearinghouse.org/publications/2016/2016-q3-banking-perspectives |
| Tackling social ills will do more than bombs to defeat ISIS | 28-Jul-16 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/28/isis-hate-jihadis-recruits |
| ISIS: The Durability of Chaos | 18-Jul-16 | The New York Review of Books | Scott Atran | www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/07/16/nice-attack-isis-durability-of-chaos/ |
| New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist | 23-Jun-16 | ScienceNews | Bruce Bower | www.sciencenews.org/article/new-studies-explore-why-ordinary-people-turn-terrorist |
| Getting to Know the Enemy: Scott Atran’s Frontline Science | 16-Jun-16 | International Peace & Security Programs - Carnegie Corporation of New York | Scott Malcomson | |
| The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures | 1-Jun-16 | Current Anthropology | Scott Atran | www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/685495 |
| Empirical Evidence for the Devoted Actor Model | 23-May-16 | Current Anthropology | Hammad Sheikh | www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/686221 |
| Scott Atran: “I__D bir devrimdir” | 22-May-16 | MEDYASCOPE.TV. | medyascope.tv/2016/05/22/scott-atran-isid-bir-devrimdir/ | |
| The Road to ISIS | 20-May-16 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Tom Barlett | kmk411.com/The%20Scientist%20Who%20Talks%20to%20ISIS%20-%20The%20Chronicle%20of%20Higher%20Educa%20[2304588].pdf |
| La stratégie de Daech: créer un monde binaire | April 2016 | Nafees Hamid | ||
| The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees | 20-Apr-16 | The Nation | Lydia Wilson | www.thenation.com/article/the-eu-is-now-criminalizing-refugees/ |
| On the Front Line Against ISIS | 19-Apr-16 | The Daily Beast | Scott Atran | www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/19/on-the-front-line-against-isis-who-fights-who-doesn-t-and-why.html |
| Sustainable Security and Sacred Values | 18-Apr-16 | Sustainable Security | Hammad Sheikh | sustainablesecurity.org/2016/04/18/sustainable-security-and-sacred-values/ |
| Comment devient-on djihadiste? | 7-Apr-16 | Telerama.fr | Scott Atran | www.telerama.fr/monde/comment-devient-on-djihadiste-1-2-par-scott-atran-anthropologue,140496.php |
| “Terror in Europe” – A Testimony | 5-Apr-16 | Statement before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Zarate-Senate-Homeland-testimony-5-April-2016-v2.pdf |
| Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East | 18-Feb-16 | Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East: Insurgency in the Holy Land | Richard Davis | www.amazon.com/Hamas-Popular-Support-Middle-East/dp/1138927805/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1454947560&sr=1-1 |
| Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever | 28-Dec-15 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Jeremy Ginges | www.pnas.org/content/113/2/316.full |
| ISIS is a revolution | 16-Dec-15 | Aeon | Scott Atran | aeon.co/essays/all-revolutions-are-born-in-terror-can-this-one-be-stopped |
| Die drei Grundformen des Dschihad | 15-Dec-15 | ZEIT | Hammad Sheikh | www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2015-12/islamischer-staat-syrien-kaempfer-westen-typologie-motivation |
| Whether to Kill | 14-Dec-15 | Whether to Kill: The Cognitive Maps of Violent and Nonviolent Individuals. University of Pennsylvania Press. | Stephanie Dornschneider | www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15415.html |
| Paris: The War ISIS Wants | 16-Nov-15 | The New York Review of Books | Nafees Hamid | www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/16/paris-attacks-isis-strategy-chaos/ |
| Mindless terrorists? The Truth about ISIS… | 15-Nov-15 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/15/terrorists-isis |
| Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters | 23-Oct-15 | The Nation | Lydia Wilson | www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-interviewing-isis-prisoners/ |
| Cybersecurity in Israel | 2015 | Lior Tabansky | ||
| ISIS and the Assad dynasty | 25-Sep-15 | The Times Literary Supplement | Lydia Wilson | www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1610548.ece |
| What drives Westerners to fight for ISIL? | 12-Sep-15 | UpFront with Mehdi Hasan, Al Jazeera TV | Mehdi Hasan | www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrMW7WIZfgs&feature=youtu.be |
| The Kurds’ Heroic Stand Against ISIS | 16-Mar-15 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/opinion/the-kurds-heroic-stand-against-isis.html?ref=opinion&_ |
| The ISIS in the Room | 5-Feb-15 | Nautilus | Lydia Wilson | nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-isis-in-the-room |
| The Devoted Actor as Parochial Altruist | 30-Dec-14 | Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural | Hammad Sheikh | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cliodynamics-Devoted-Actor-as-Parochial-Altruist_Sheikh-et-al.pdf |
| For Cause and Comrade and colleagues | 30-Dec-14 | Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cliodynamics-For-Cause-and-Comrade_Atran-et-al.pdf |
| Devoted actors sacrifice for close comrades and sacred cause | 4-Dec-14 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Scott Atran | |
| Multi-Method Assessment of ISIL | December 2014 | Michael Nagata | digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=sociology_articles | |
| The Devoted Actor, Sacred Values, and Willingness to Fight | 30-Nov-14 | Executive Summary presented to U.S. Senate | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Atran-Soccnet-MINERVA-ISIS.pdf |
| Motive attribution asymmetry | 20-Oct-14 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Adam Waytz | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PNAS-2014-Waytz-Ginges.pdf |
| Jihad’s fatal attraction | 17-Sep-14 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/04/jihad-fatal-attraction-challenge-democracies-isis-barbarism |
| Incentives for War, Beyond Material Gain | 21-Aug-14 | The New York Times | Artis International Experts | www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/opinion/incentives-for-war-beyond-material-gain.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=1 |
| U.S. Must Help Deal Directly With Hamas | 5-Aug-14 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/08/05/can-the-us-still-be-a-leader-in-the-middle-east/us-must-help-deal-directly-with-hamas?smid=fb-share |
| Countering Violent Extremism | 24-Apr-14 | Presented to US DoS, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism and DoD Defense Science Board | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/S.Atran_DoD_DSB-CVE_25Apr141.pdf |
| Briefing to the U.S. Defense Science Board | 13-Feb-14 | Briefing to the U.S. DOD Defense Science Board | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ATRAN-2014-DSB-CVE-Briefing.pdf |
| A Garden Experiment Revisited | 12-Nov-13 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Oliver le Guen | artisinternational.org/articles/Garden_Experiment_Revisited_JRAI_2013.pdf |
| Negotiating Cultural Conflicts | 25-Oct-13 | In MODELS FOR INTERCULTURAL COLLABORATION AND NEGOTIATION | Kate Jassin | artisinternational.org/articles/Jassin_2013_Negotiating_Cultural_Conflicts.pdf |
| Cyber Security Valley | 14-Jul-13 | Arizona Republic | Richard Davis | artisinternational.org/articles/Cyber%20Security%20Valley%20-%2014July2013.pdf |
| Social Science in the National Interest | 15-Mar-13 | Foreign Policy | Scott Atran | www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/15/social_warfare_budget_republicans |
| Social evolution: The ritual animal | 23-Jan-13 | NATURE | Dan Jones | www.nature.com/news/social-evolution-the-ritual-animal-1.12256 |
| “Managing Egypt” – A Memo | 8-Nov-12 | Memo prepared for the NSS | Artis International Experts | artisinternational.org/articles/ARTIS_ManagingEgypt_NSS.pdf |
| God and the Ivory Tower | 6-Aug-12 | FOREIGN POLICY | Scott Atran | www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/06/god_and_the_ivory_tower?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full |
| Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict | 18-May-12 | SCIENCE (SPECIAL SECTION) | Scott Atran | sitemaker.umich.edu/satran/files/atran_ginges_science_article_on_religion_onflict.pdf |
| Religion, group threat and sacred values | 1-Mar-12 | JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING | Hammad Sheikh | artisinternational.org/articles/Sheikh_Ginges_Coman_Atran_Religion_GroupThreat_SV.pdf |
| Talking to the Enemy: An alternative approach | 1-Feb-12 | The Solutions Journal | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_TTTE_An_Alternative_Approach.pdf |
| The Price of Your Soul: Neural Evidence for the Non-Utilitarian Representation of Sacred Values | 25-Jan-12 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences | Gregory Berns | artisinternational.org/articles/Berns_et_al-Price_of_your_soul.pdf |
| The biology of cultural conflict | 25-Jan-12 | The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences | Gregory Berns | artisinternational.org/articles/Berns&Atran_Biology_Cultural_Conflict.pdf |
| Survey of Energy Resources | 1-Jan-12 | Presented to World Energy Council | Richard Davis | artisinternational.org/articles/Davis_Shale_Gas_Update_Jan2012.pdf |
| Gangs, terrorism and radicalization | 1-Dec-11 | JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC SECURITY | Scott Decker | artisinternational.org/articles/Decker_Pyrooz_gangs_terrorism_radicalization.pdf |
| The Value(s) of IRBs | 3-Nov-11 | APS OBSERVER | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Values_of_IRBs.pdf |
| Leaving the gang | 1-Nov-11 | COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | Scott Decker | artisinternational.org/articles/Decker_Pyrooz_Leaving_the_gang.pdf |
| La Tercera Cultura: Entrevista a Scott Atran | 22-Oct-11 | CULTURE 3.0 | Scott Atran | https://artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_La_Tercera_Cultura .pdf |
| Dix Ans Aprުs, L’empreinte du 11-Septembre | 9-Oct-11 | LA CROIX | Marie Boeton | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_L'empreinte_du_11_Septembre.pdf |
| How Killing Awlaki Affects America, Al Qaeda, and the Arab Spring | 1-Oct-11 | HUFF POST WORLD | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_How_Killing_Awlaki_Affects_America.pdf |
| The Terrorism Expert | 8-Sep-11 | Michigan Today | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Terrorism_Expert.pdf |
| Scott Atran – Violent Extremism and Sacred Values | 29-Aug-11 | PointOfInquiry.org | Chris Mooney | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Violent_Extremism_and_Sacred_Values.pdf |
| Violent Extremism | 8-Aug-11 | AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST | Jeremy Ginges | artisinternational.org/articles/Ginges_Atran_Sachdeva_Medin_Violent_Extremism.pdf |
| Enemies | 7-Aug-11 | The Chronicle Review | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Enemies.pdf |
| The Battle for Reform With Al-Qaeda | 1-Jun-11 | The Washington Quaterly | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Battle_Reform_Al-Qaeda.pdf |
| The Emotions of Nuclear Experts | 1-Apr-11 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | artisinternational.org/articles/Fischhoff_Emotions_Nuclear_Experts.pdf | |
| The Role of Social and Decision Sciences in Communicating Uncertain Climate Risks | 26-Mar-11 | Nature Climate Change | artisinternational.org/articles/Fischhoff_Role_Communicating_Climate.pdf | |
| Sam Harris’s Guide to Nearly Everything | 1-Mar-11 | National Interest | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Sam_Harriss_Guide.pdf |
| Pumping Up the Muslim Brotherhood | February 4, 2011 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Pumping_Up.pdf |
| Calling the Muslim Brotherhood | 2-Feb-11 | The National Interest | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Calling_the_Muslim_Brotherhood.pdf |
| Survey of Energy Resources: Focus on Shale Gas: | 7-Dec-10 | Artis International | Richard Davis | artisinternational.org/articles/Davis_Shale_Gas_Report_2010.pdf |
| The Taliban’s Expat Jihadists | 26-Nov-10 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Talibans_Expat_Jihadists.pdf |
| Nato’s Mission Impossible: Its Effects on the Afghan Partisan Movement and on US | 26-Nov-10 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_NATOs_Mission_Impossible.pdf |
| The Indonesia Opportunity: Why this Southeast Asian Country is Obama’s Best Hope for Relations With the Muslim World | 9-Nov-10 | Foreign Policy | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_The_Indonesia_Opportunity.pdf |
| Keystone Al -Kaeda: In the Battle Against Al Qaeda, the Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself | 5-Nov-10 | Foreign Policy | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Keystone_Al_Kaeda.pdf |
| Turning the Taliban Against Al Qaeda | 26-Oct-10 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Turning_the_Taliban.pdf |
| The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By Products Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions | 1-Oct-10 | Biological Theory Quarterly | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Evolution_of_Religion.pdf |
| Beyond Sanctions | 20-Sep-10 | National Review | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Beyond_Sanctions.pdf |
| Supreme Court’s Hard Line on Supporting Terrorists is the Right Line | 16-Aug-10 | Christian Science Monitor | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Supreme_Court.pdf |
| Europe Gets it Right | 12-Aug-10 | Foreign Policy | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Europe_Gets_It_Right.pdf |
| A Question of Honour: Why the Taliban Fight and What to Do About It | 23-Jul-10 | Asian Journal of Social Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Question_of_Honour.pdf |
| The Romance of Terror | 19-Jul-10 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Romance_of_Terror.pdf |
| Protecting Lives and Data: A Critical Test for Europe | 7-Jul-10 | Center for Strategic and International Studies | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Protecting_Lives_and_Data.pdf |
| Who Becomes a Terrorist Today? | 1-Jul-10 | Perspectives on Terrorism | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Who_Becomes_a_Terrorist.pdf |
| Mutually Assured Support: A Security Doctrine for Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Threats | 1-Jul-10 | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Mutually_Assured_Support.pdf |
| Why We Talk to Terrorists | 30-Jun-10 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Why_We_Talk_To_Terrorists.pdf |
| Decentralize, Adapt, Cooperate | 20-May-10 | Nature | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Decentralize_Adapt_Cooperate.pdf |
| Understanding How the Privileged Become Violent Fanatics | 7-May-10 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Understanding_How_the_Privileged.pdf |
| Times Square Bomber: Another of the Dangerous Disillusioned | 7-May-10 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Times_Square_Bomber.pdf |
| Eighteen Months and Beyond: Implications of U.S. Policy in Afghanistan | 1-Apr-10 | Symposium: U.S. Policy in Afghanistan | Bruce Riedel | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Eighteen_Months.pdf |
| Pathways to and from violent extremism | 10-Mar-10 | Presented to Senate Armed Services Committee | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Statement_Before_the_Senate.pdf |
| Time to Reset Politics, Focus on Enemy | 22-Feb-10 | Politico | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Time_to_Reset_Politics.pdf |
| On the psychology of religious fundamentalism | 1-Jan-10 | in RELIGION AND PSYCHIATRY & BEYOND BOUNDARIES | The Lord John Alderdice | artisinternational.org/articles/alderdice_onthepsychologyofreligiousfundamenalism.pdf |
| Off the couch and round the conference table | 1-Jan-10 | In CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC APPLICATIONS | The Lord John Alderdice | artisinternational.org/articles/Alderdice_offthecouchandroundtheconferencetable.pdf |
| The Terror Scare | 30-Dec-09 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Terror_Scare.pdf |
| To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East | 13-Dec-09 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_To_Beat_Al_Qaeda.pdf |
| Emerging Sacred Values: Iran’s Nuclear Program | 1-Dec-09 | Judgment and Decision Making | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Emerging_Sacred_Values.pdf |
| Plaudi la Rivoluzione Cognitiva | 7-Nov-09 | Il Sole 24 Ore | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Plaudi_la_Rivoluzione.pdf |
| In Memory of Claude Levi-Strauss | 4-Nov-09 | International Cognition and Culture Institute | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_In_Memory.pdf |
| Resilient Faith | 28-Oct-09 | The Guardian | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Resilient_Faith.pdf |
| Harnessing the Financial Furies: Smart Financial Power and National Security | 26-Oct-09 | The Washington Quarterly | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Harnessing_Financial_Furies.pdf |
| Barack’s Nobel: A Symbolic Gesture of Hope to the World’s Youth | 10-Oct-09 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Baracks_Nobel.pdf |
| The (Im)moral Logic of the Show Trial | 8-Aug-09 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Immoral_Logic.pdf |
| Theoretical Frames on Pathways to Violent Radicalization | August 1, 2009 | Artis Research & Risk Modeling | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ARTIS_Theoretical_Frames_August_2009.pdf |
| What Motivates Participation in Violent Political Action? | 1-Jun-09 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_.pdf |
| Sacred Values: Psychological and Anthropological Perspectives on Fairness, Fundamentalism, and Terrorism | 1-Jun-09 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | John Thomas Alderdice | artisinternational.org/articles/Alderdice_Sacred_Values.pdf |
| Smart Financial Power and International Security | 21-Apr-09 | Center for Strategic and International Studies | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Smart_Financial_Power.pdf |
| The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies | 18-Apr-09 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Moral_Measure.pdf |
| Unleash the Financial Furies against North Korea | 14-Apr-09 | Los Angeles Times | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Unleash.pdf |
| The Torture Veto and America’s Image | 11-Mar-09 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Torture_Veto.pdf |
| How Words Could End a War | 25-Jan-09 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Words_Could_End_a_War.pdf |
| Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don’t Get It | 13-Sep-08 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Religion_In_America.pdf |
| Humiliation and the Inertia Effect | 1-Sep-08 | Journal of Cognition & Culture | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Humiliation_and_the_Inertia_Effect.pdf |
| Putting Al Qaeda on the Couch | 19-Jul-08 | Newsweek | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Al_Qaeda_on_the_Couch.pdf |
| Does Osama Still Call the Shots? | 10-Jul-08 | Foreign Affairs | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Does_Osama.pdf |
| In Theory: Reframing Sacred Values | 1-Jul-08 | Negotiation Journal | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_In_Theory.pdf |
| A Strategy for Fighting International Islamic Terrorists | 1-Jul-08 | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Strategy_for_Fighting.pdf |
| Fear Versus Hope in the Fight Against Terror | 25-Jun-08 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Fear_v_Hope.pdf |
| Uncovering the Dark Web: A Case Study of Jihad on the Web | 7-Apr-08 | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Uncovering_the_Dark_Web.pdf |
| The Making of a Terrorist: A Need for Understanding from the Field | 12-Mar-08 | Testimony before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Making_of_a_Terrorist.pdf |
| Waterboarding: Our Sacred Right | 11-Mar-08 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Waterboarding.pdf |
| The Next Generation of Terror | 1-Mar-08 | Foreign Policy | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Next_Generation_of_Terror.pdf |
| Jemaah Islamiyah’s Radical Madrassah Networks | 1-Mar-08 | Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Jemaah_Islamiyahs.pdf |
| Portrait of a Modern Terrorist Group | 2-Feb-08 | New Scientist | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Portrait_of_a_Modern_Terrorist.pdf |
| Connecting Terrorist Networks | 1-Jan-08 | Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Connecting_Terrorist_Networks.pdf |
| Understanding Terrorism and What We Can Do About It: A Continuing Conversation With Lord John Alderdice | 1-Sep-07 | Internaitonal Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies | The Lord John Alderdice | artisinternational.org/articles/Alderdice_Understanding_Terrorism.pdf |
| Terror’s Social Club | 1-Sep-07 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Terrors_Social_Club.pdf |
| Cultural Mosaics and Mental Models of Nature | 28-Aug-07 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Cultural_Mosaics.pdf |
| Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution | 24-Aug-07 | Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Sacred_Barriers.pdf |
| The Nature of Belief | 28-Jul-07 | Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Nature_of_Belief.pdf |
| Sacred Bounds on Rational Resolution of Violent Political Conflict | 1-May-07 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Sacred_Bounds.pdf |
| Terror Networks and Sacred Values | 27-Mar-07 | Political Violence Report | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Terror_Networks.pdf |
| Give Palestine’s Unity Government a Chance | 4-Mar-07 | The Huffington Post | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Palestines_Unity_Government.pdf |
| Counting Casualties: A Framework for Respectful, Useful Records | 1-Feb-07 | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Counting_Casualties.pdf |
| The Evolution of Ethnocentrism | 1-Dec-06 | The Journal of Conflict Resolution | Robert Axelrod | artisinternational.org/articles/Axelrod_Evolution_of_Ethnocentrism.pdf |
| Pakistan: Balancing Act | 1-Nov-06 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Balancing_Act.pdf |
| An Evolutionary Approach to Norms | 1-Nov-06 | American Political Science Review | Robert Axelrod | artisinternational.org/articles/Axelrod_An_Evolutionary_Approach.pdf |
| Devoted Actor Versus Rational Actor Models for Understanding World Conflict | 14-Sep-06 | Presented to The National Security Council | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Devoted_Actor.pdf |
| Evolution of Cooperation among Tumor Cells | 5-Sep-06 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Robert Axelrod | artisinternational.org/articles/Axelrod_Evolution_of_Cooperation.pdf |
| Is Hamas Ready to Deal? | 17-Aug-06 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Is_Hamas_Ready_To_Deal.pdf |
| Sacred Values. If the Middle East Peace Process is to be Salvaged, Israelis and Palestinians Must Make Symbolic Concessions. But Time is Running Out. | 19-Jul-06 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Sacred_Values.pdf |
| Connecting the Dots and Scott Atran | 1-Jul-06 | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Connceting_the_Dots.pdf |
| Analyzing the Terrorist Social Networks with Visualization Tools | 23-May-06 | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Analyzing_the_Terrorist.pdf |
| The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism | 1-Apr-06 | Washington Quarterly | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Moral_Logic.pdf |
| A Failure of Imagination | 1-Apr-06 | Studies in Conflict & Terrorism | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Failure_of_Imagination.pdf |
| Religion’s Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background | 26-Mar-06 | The Innate Mind: Vol. 2: Culture and Cognition | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Religions_Innate_Origins.pdf |
| Fighting the Right War | 16-Mar-06 | National De-Fence University Joint Operations Symposium | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_Fighting_the_Right_War.pdf |
| To Jihad and Back | 1-Nov-05 | Foreign Policy | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_To_Jihad_and_Back.pdf |
| The Emir: An Interview with Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, Alleged Leader of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah Organization | 26-Oct-05 | The Jamestown Foundation | Scott Atran | jamestown.org/interview/the-emir-an-interview-with-abu-bakar-baasyir-alleged-leader-of-the-southeast-asian-jemaah-islamiyah-organization/ |
| The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling Within and Across Populations | 26-Oct-05 | Psychological Review | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Cultural_Mind.pdf |
| In Indonesia, Democracy Isn’t Enough | 5-Oct-05 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_In_Indonesia_Democracy.pdf |
| Small Groups Find Fatal Purpose through the Web | 29-Sep-05 | Nature | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Small_Groups_Find_Fatal_Purpose.pdf |
| Folkbiology of Freshwater Fish | 6-Sep-05 | Cognition | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Folkbiology_of_Freshwater_Fish.pdf |
| Unintelligent Design | 30-Aug-05 | Edge | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Unintelligent_Design.pdf |
| The Virtual Hand of Jihad | 19-May-05 | Jamestown Terrorism Monitor | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Virtual_Hand.pdf |
| Facing Catastrophe-Risk and Response: the 9-11 and 11-M Commissions’ Blind Sides | 1-May-05 | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Facing_Catastrophe.pdf |
| Lethal Lapses in Intelligence | 2-Apr-05 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Lethal_Lapses.pdf |
| Adaptationism for Human Cognition: Strong, Spurious or Weak? | 1-Feb-05 | Mind & Language | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Adaptationism.pdf |
| Hamas May Give Peace a Chance | 18-Dec-04 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Hamas_May_Give_Peace_a_Chance.pdf |
| Turning Out Hell’s Harpists | 26-Nov-04 | World Federation of Scientists | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Hells_Harpists.pdf |
| Let Liberty Transform Palestinians, Too | 27-Oct-04 | The Christian Science Monitor | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/tran_Let_Liberty_Transform.pdf |
| Religion’s Evolutionary Landscape: Counterintuition, Commitment, Compassion, Communion | 26-Oct-04 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Religions_Evolutionary_Landscape.pdf |
| Anti-Anti Cartesianism: A Reply to Shanker | 26-Oct-04 | Current Anthropology | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Anti_Cartesianism.pdf |
| The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures | 1-Oct-04 | Psychological Review | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Native_Mind.pdf |
| Trends in Suicide Terrorism: Sense and Nonsense | 26-Aug-04 | World Federation of Scientists | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Trends_in_Suicide_Terrorism.pdf |
| Altruism via Kin-Selection Strategies That Rely on Arbitrary Tags with Which They Coevolve | 1-Aug-04 | Evolution | Robert Axelrod | artisinternational.org/articles/Axelrod_Altruism.pdf |
| Mishandling Suicide Terrorism | 1-Jul-04 | Washington Quarterly | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Mishandling_Suicide_Terrorism.pdf |
| Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies | 1-Jun-04 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Evolution_And_Devolution.pdf |
| The Jihadist Mutation | 7-Apr-04 | The Jamestown Foundation | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Jihadist_Mutation.pdf |
| Individual Factors in Suicide Terrorism | 2-Apr-04 | Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Individual_Factors.pdf |
| A Leaner, Meaner Jihad | 16-Mar-04 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_A_Leaner_Meaner_Jihad.pdf |
| Children’s Attributions of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence | 1-Jan-04 | Cognitive Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Childrens_Attributions.pdf |
| The Strategic Threat from Suicide Terror | 26-Dec-03 | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Strategic_Threat.pdf |
| A Historical Note on False Traumatic Memories | 6-Nov-03 | Journal of Clinical Psychology | Marc Sageman | artisinternational.org/articles/Sageman_False_Traumatic_Memories.pdf |
| What Motivates a Terrorist? | 28-Sep-03 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_What_Motivates_A_Terrorist.pdf |
| A Metamodule for Conceptual Integration: Language or Theory of Mind | 11-Aug-03 | Behavioral and Brain Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_A_Metamodule_for_Conceptual.pdf |
| Who Wants to Be a Martyr? | 5-May-03 | The New York Times | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Martyr_.pdf |
| Theorie Cognitive de la Culture Une Alternative Evolutionniste a la Sociobiology et a la Selection Collective | 1-Apr-03 | L'Homme | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Theorie_Cognitive.pdf |
| U.S. Off Target in Terror War | 7-Mar-03 | Detroit Free Press | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/AAtran_US_Off_Target.pdf |
| Genesis of Suicide Terrorism | 7-Mar-03 | Science | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Genesis_of_Suicide_Terrorism.pdf |
| Cultural and Experimental Differences in the Development of Folkbiological Induction | 1-Jan-03 | Cognitive Development | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Cultural_and_Experimental_Differences.pdf |
| The Neuropsychology of Religion | 26-Oct-02 | NeuroTheology: Brain, Science, Spirituality & Religious Experience | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Neuropsychology_of_Religion.pdf |
| Modest Adaptationism: Muddling Trough Cognition and Language | 26-Oct-02 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Modest_Adaptationism.pdf |
| Essentialism and Folkbiology: Evidence from Brazil | 1-Sep-02 | Journal of Cognition & Culture | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Essentialism_And_Folkbiology.pdf |
| Thinking About Biology. Modular Constraints on Categorization and Reasoning in the Everyday Life of Americans, Maya, and Scientists | 1-Jun-02 | Mind & Society | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Thinking_About_Biology.pdf |
| Folkecology, Cultural Edipemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons | 1-Jun-02 | Current Anthropology | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Folkecology.pdf |
| A Bird’s Eye View: Biological Categorization and Reasoning Within and Across Cultures | 1-Feb-02 | Cognition | Bailenson, JN | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_A_Birds_Eye_View.pdf |
| The Case for Modularity: Sin or Salvation | 26-Oct-01 | Evolution and Cognition | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Case_For_Modularity.pdf |
| A Cheater-Detection Module? | 26-Oct-01 | Evolution and Cognition | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Cheater_Detection_Module.pdf |
| The Trouble with Memes | 5-Mar-01 | Human Nature | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_The_Trouble_With_Memes.pdf |
| Folkbiology Doesn’t Come from Folkpsychology | 1-Feb-01 | Journal of Cognition & Culture | Scott Atran | artisinternational.org/articles/Atran_Folkbiology_Folkpsychology.pdf |
| The Emergence of a New Dog Of War | 26-Oct-98 | Stanford Journal of International Law | Juan Zarate | artisinternational.org/articles/Zarate_Emergence_of_a_New_Dog.pdf |