Radicalization to Terrorism

Sophia Moskalenko (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Psychology at University of Latvia, Latvia. Her research focuses on extremism, radicalization, political violence, and self-sacrifice. She has consulted the US government, as well as the UN, NATO, and the European Commission, and has published over 90 research articles and several books, including Friction: How Conflict Radicalizes Them and Us; Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon; and Psychology of Extreme.Arie W. Kruglanski (Ph.D., UCLA) is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA, and a co-founding Principal Investigator at START, the national center of excellence for the study of terrorism and the response to terrorism. Kruglanski has published 500 articles and books on basic psychological processes and the psychology of extremism, and received numerous scientific awards including Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for the Science of Motivation, and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science.