Prejudice, terrorism, and behavior therapy

Prejudice, terrorism, and behavior therapy

Behavior therapy is relevant not just to the needs of victims of terrorism, but also to the understanding and modification of psychological processes that lead to the perpetration of terrorist acts. A key process of this kind is prejudice. In this paper, human prejudice is defined as the objectification and dehumanization of people as a result of their participation in evaluative verbal categor...

Mathematical modeling of dynamics behavior of terrorism and control

Terrorism is generally understood to be the use of threat or extra normal violence to gain ideological reasons and personal benefit. In this paper, a mathematical modelling of terrorism with military strategies and rehabilitation of terrorists was constructed. The model is developed to control the spread of terrorist ideologies in the society and suitable to describe terrorist group. The popula...

Terrorism: behavior defies psychiatric diagnosis.

"Prejudiced" behavior without prejudice? Beliefs about the malleability of prejudice affect interracial interactions.

Prejudiced behavior is typically seen as emanating from prejudiced attitudes. Eight studies showed that majority-group members' beliefs about prejudice can create seemingly "prejudiced" behaviors above and beyond prejudice measured explicitly (Study 1b) and implicitly (Study 2). Those who believed prejudice was relatively fixed, rather than malleable, were less interested in interracial interac...

Simulating Terrorism: Credible Commitment, Costly Signaling, and Strategic Behavior

Wepresent two simulations designed to convey the strategic nature of terrorism and counterterrorism. The first is a simulated hostage crisis, designed primarily to illustrate the concepts of credible commitment and costly signaling.The second explores highlevel decision making of both a terrorist group and the state, and is designed to highlight scarce-resource allocation and organizational dyn...