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| Title | Collective uncertainty, catastrophic evolution, and Islamic terrorism |
| Creator | Moghaddam, Fathali M.
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| Symposium | Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
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| Series | Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
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| Date | 2008-04-06 |
| Subject-LCSH | Uncertainty
Globalization
Languages
Fundamentalism
Fear
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| Subject-Local | Extremism
Collective Uncertainty
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| Description | Dr. Fathali M. Moghaddam states that collective uncertainty has a central role in terrorism as emanating from Islamic communities. To examine this, he developed a macro, cultural-evolutionary analysis of Islamic terrorism. Fractured globalization has given rise to sudden and large scale contact, involving interactions between groups that are uneven in preadaptiveness. The result is catastrophic evolution, a rapid decline in cultural and linguistic diversity around the world. Sudden contact and the threat of catastrophic evolution give rise to collective uncertainty. Under certain conditions collective uncertainty results in the adoption of highly aggressive defense mechanism. Islamic fundamentalists experience collective uncertainty and identity threat in the face of spreading secularism and Westernization. In response, Islamic fundamentalists are ‘defending to the death' cultural carriers they see to be central to their survival (e.g., hejab, Islamic veil for women), and in extreme cases adopting terrorist tactics to try to prevent what they see to be the extinction of their group. Dr. Moghaddam suggests that Western countries try affecting fundamentalists through cultural exchange and not isolation. |
| Publisher | Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences |
| Language | eng
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| Source | Original video: Digital video cassette; 60 minute DVM; Tape 3; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Collective uncertainty, catastrophic evolution, and Islamic terrorism" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008 |
| Relation | 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
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| Running time | 00:33:31 |
| Video Format - 40 Kbps | video/mp4 |
| Video Format - 300 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - 800 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - LAN | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Object File Name | lap00041 |
