Amerika’da aşırı sağ şiddetin uzun bir geçmişi bulunmaktadır. İç savaşın ardından Ku Klux Klan Örgütü’nün Afrikalı Amerikalılara ve “işbirlikçi” beyazlara yönelik sistematik örgütlü şiddet uygulamaları gelişiminde önemli rol oynamıştır. 1960’lardan sonra neo-Nazilerin, Hıristiyan Kimlik doktrinine bağlı grupların hükümet karşıtlarının sahnesine girmesi, sağda ideolojik örgütsel çeşitliliğe yol ...

Abstract Our conventional wisdom about animal ethics, as embodied in the welfare position, is that animals are not things to whom we can have no moral obligations. Animals who sentient, or subjectively aware, a morally significant interest suffering. But, because they self-aware, do an empirical matter continuing live. So may use and kill long so ‘humanely’ impose ‘unnecessary’ suffering on the...

In this paper we introduce a novel model that can account for the spread of extreme opinions in a human population as a purely local, self-organising process. Our starting point is the well-known and influential Relative Agreement (RA) model of opinion dynamics introduced by Deffuant et al. (2002). The RA model explores the dynamics of opinions in populations that are initially seeded with some...

Recent terrorist attacks carried out on behalf of ISIS on American and European soil by lone wolf attackers or sleeper cells remind us of the importance of understanding the dynamics of radicalization mediated by social media communication channels. In this paper, we shed light on the social media activity of a group of twenty-five thousand users whose association with ISIS online radical propa...

Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB) are rigidly held, non-deusional beliefs that are the motive behind most acts of terrorism and mass shootings. EOBs are differentiated from delusions and obsessions. The concept of an overvalued idea was first described by Wernicke and later applied to terrorism by McHugh. Our group of forensic psychiatrists (Rahman, Resnick, Harry) refined the definition as an a...