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Identity Diffusion and Extremist Attitudes in Adolescence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Various theoretical approaches assume that identity diffusion is an influencing factor of extremism. However, there are hardly any empirical tests on this relationship. Based on a nationwide survey of 8,317 young people in Switzerland, the study analyses
Anna Isenhardt   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detecting Authoritarianism Efficiently: Psychometric Properties of the Screening Instrument Authoritarianism – Ultra Short (A-US) in a German Representative Sample

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
With right-wing-extremist and -populist parties and movements on the rise throughout the world, the concept of authoritarianism has proven to be particularly valuable to explain the psychological underpinnings of these tendencies. Even though many scales
Ayline Heller   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Online Right-Wing Extremism: New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesProceedings, 2021
Academics and policymakers recognize the absence of empirically grounded research to support the suppositions on which terrorist focused policies are based. (Sageman, Marc. 2014. “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”. Terrorism and Political Violence 26
Brian Ballsun-Stanton   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Increased National Threat of Domestic, Right-Wing Extremist Terrorism

open access: yesThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2018
Right-wing extremism (RWE) presents a national Canadian threat, requiring research and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programming, which Canadian security and intelligence is arguably failing to recognize and address.
Caitlin Manz
doaj   +1 more source

Right-Wing Extremism Elements in the Canadian Armed Forces

open access: yesThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2021
The purpose of this briefing note is to examine the alleged presence of right-wing extremism (RWE) within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), with particular reference to Corporal Patrik Mathews and RWE group, known as “The Base”. 
CASIS-Vancouver
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and Far Right Extremism

open access: yesThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2023
In the media and within the literature, far right extremism has been noted as being hypermasculine in character. Yet, the framing of these movements as being male dominated, though accurate, obscures the roles that women play within these spaces.
Leyde Rodriguez Guervos
doaj   +1 more source

Charlotte Pommer: Resistance fighter and female pioneer of German anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the biography and unique case of Charlotte Pommer (1914–2004), the only anatomist documented to have left the field during the Nazi period after encountering the regime's victims on the dissection table. While she is known for her resistance activities, newly presented documentation reveals her role as the provisional ...
Tim S. Goldmann
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Psychology and morality of political extremists: evidence from Twitter language analysis of alt-right and Antifa

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2019
The recent rise of the political extremism in Western countries has spurred renewed interest in the psychological and moral appeal of political extremism.
Meysam Alizadeh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

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