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Chapters

The Book Proposal: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EXTREMISM - Edited by Joseph P. Forgas

Aleksandra Cichocka
(University of Kent)
Collective narcissism as a threat to democracy and social cohesion

Joel Cooper (Princeton University)
The Extremism Cycle: False beliefs, social identity and cognitive dissonance

William D. Crano (Claremont Graduate University), Benjamin J. Anjewierden & Amber M. Gaffney (Cal Poly Humboldt University)
The Fathers of Extremism: How they succeed or fail

David Dunning (University of Michigan)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Extremist Belief and Reasoning

Julia Ebner (University of Oxford)
Leader-Follower Dynamics in Violent Regimes: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Social Psychology of Cumulative Radicalisation

Joseph P Forgas (University of New South Wales)
The role of propaganda in promoting ideological extremism and autocracy

Jeremy Ginges (London School of Economics and Political Science)
The social psychology of extreme violence

Gilad Hirschberger, Romi Josef-Benyamini & Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler (Reichman University)
Signals of Peace, Echoes of Violence: Distinguishing Visionary from Blind Extremism

Lee Jussim, Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Ohad Fedida (Rutgers University), Gidon Fihrer (Network Contagion Research Institute), Nathaniel Bork (University of Arkansas) & Joel Finkelstein (Network Contagion Research Institute)
Anti-Bigotry Extremism and A Possible Antidote

Peter Kreko (Eötvös Loránd University)
Mainstreaming Extremism: How Illiberal Governance Radicalizes the Political Center

Joachim I. Krueger (Brown University)
Accentuation theory revisited: Tajfel’s legacy for the study of extremism

Sophia Moskalenko (University of Latvia)
Extreme Disconnect: Extremism-Social Connectedness Continuum Theory

Jon Roozenbeck, Sander van der Linden & Neil Lavie-Driver (University of Cambridge)
The efficacy and effectiveness of counter-extremism interventions

A. Timur Sevincer (Leuphana University Lüneburg) & Gijsbert Stoet (University of Essex)
Pluralistic Illusions and Gender Politics: How Misperceptions may Fuel Polarization in Young Women and Men

Steven Sloman (Brown University)
The Cost of Conviction: How Sacred Value Frames Lead Us Astray

Jan-Willem van Prooijen (VU University Amsterdam)
How Conspiracy Theories Increase Political Extremism