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Title	Religious Zeal After Goal Frustration
Creator	McGregor, Ian
Symposium	Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
Series	Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
Date	2008-04-06
Subject-LCSH	Religion Frustration Uncertainty Panic Anxiety Psychology Threat Hate
Subject-Local	Extremism
Description	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.
Publisher	Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
Language	eng
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
Collection	Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science
Rights	: Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws.
Type	moving image
Running time	00:31:49
Format	video/f4v
Object File Name	lap00039

Religious Zeal After Goal Frustration

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