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Dr. Ian McGregor’s most recent research investigates personality and social psychological causes of religious extremism. Based on over a dozen laboratory experiments he has found that various psychological threats cause people to go to extremes. Threats that have caused extremism in our research include experimental manipulations of uncertainty, failure, confusion, relationship dissatisfaction, mortality salience, system injustice, and feelings of personal insignificance. In his talk Dr. McGregor presents evidence for a basic, goal-regulation explanation for how such diverse threats can interchangeably cause such diverse forms of extremism. New research demonstrates that threats cause extremism to the extent that the threats undermine personal goals. Goal threats introduce approach-avoidance conflicts between desire to continue approaching the goal and desire to avoid further frustration.
Religion Frustration Uncertainty Panic Anxiety Psychology Threat Hate Extremism
Source
Original video: 60 minute digital 8mm cassette; Tape 10; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Religious zeal after goal frustration" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008
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