Radical worldview defense in reaction to personal uncertainty
Rating
Title
Radical worldview defense in reaction to personal uncertainty
Creator
Van den Bos, Kees
Symposium
Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
Series
Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
Date
2008-04-06
Subject-LCSH
Social Psychology Uncertainty Radicalism Cognitive psychology Sympathy Fear
Subject-Local
Extremism
Description
Kees van den Bos presents his research on attitudes toward radicalism and terrorism among adolescents in the Netherlands . He focuses on the social-psychological processes that lead people to defend their own cultural values rigorously and, in doing so , may lead them to perform extremist behaviors or show sympathy for radical ideologies . Van den Bos argues that a pivotal factor that leads people to strongly engage in cultural worldview defense and processes of autonomic radicalization is personal uncertainty , which he defines as the subjective sense of doubt or instability in people's self-views and/or world-views , and which involves the implicit and explicit feelings that people experience as a result of being uncertain about themselves . According to Dr . Kees van den Bos personal uncertainty can constitute an alarming experience for people and that conditions of personal uncertainty hence may lead people to react more strongly to fair and unfair events as well as to other events that bolster or violate their cultural worldviews . Van den Bos believes that the social psychology of personal uncertainty involve hot cognitive , not cold cognitive , processes , quite often leading people to react in subtle self-centered ways to situations in which personal uncertainty is prevalent . Building on these and other insights he proposes a model that attempts to explain adolescents being attracted to extremist groups and radical ideologies . This model focuses on three interrelated factors (experienced unfairness , personal uncertainty , and group threat) and delineates how different emotions that are the results of these factors may lead to different extremist behaviors .
Publisher
Claremont Graduate University . School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
Language
eng
Source
Original video: Digital video cassette; 60 minute DVM; Tape 6; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Radical worldview defense in reaction to personal uncertainty" 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
00:34:26
Format
video/f4v
Object File Name
lap00044
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