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A woodcut-style print showing a dark, foreboding interior with tangled black tree-like branches filling the left side, an open door on the right revealing a pale bleak landscape, and a stark red path winding through the center foreground. The high-contrast black, cream, and red palette evokes trauma, threat, and disturbed childhood environments symbolizing adverse experiences leading toward violence.

Adverse childhood experiences and violent extremism: A scoping review of the literature

By Teja Pammi, Caterina Ceccarelli, Sam Hibbs, Jemima Chase, Nafees Hamid, & Fiona S. McEwen

A conceptual painted illustration showing a solitary dark chess king piece standing on a cracked stone surface, casting a long shadow across a diagonal beam of light. Fractured lines radiate outward while a red glow pools at the base, symbolizing leadership, power orientation, and the destabilizing lethal influence of violent extremist organization leaders across their tenure.

Deadly persuasion: A multilevel analysis of leader influence tactics and lethality in violent extremist organizations

By Mackenzie Harms, Alex Bruens, Justin Jones, & Gina Ligon

A conceptual artistic photo showing two open doorways in a dim, textured room, each emitting warm glowing light. A flock of bird silhouettes flies between them, transitioning from a dark dissolving mass on the left toward the illuminated openings. The imagery evokes choice and switching between two options, metaphorically representing pigeon preference and changeover behavior during concurrent VI VI reinforcement schedules.

When a stay is a switch: Discriminative control of response chunks determines preference during concurrent VI VI schedules

By J. Mark Cleaveland

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A photo showing a dim, cluttered teenager's bedroom viewed at dusk, with a large window revealing a burning, apocalyptic cityscape glowing orange through partially raised blinds and curtains. Inside are an unmade bed, a wooden chair, a glowing computer monitor on a messy desk, scattered cables, and photographs taped to the walls—visually evoking youth isolation, dystopian worldviews, and radicalization themes discussed in the article.

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Shifts and continuity in contemporary violent extremism: Moving toward a dynamic and developmental understanding?

By Cécile Rousseau & Samuel Veissière

July 20, 2026

A conceptual illustration showing a lone figure in a green shirt walking along a crumbling stone path that disintegrates into scattered fragments and fiery orange chaos on the right. The left depicts a serene green landscape with a setting sun, rolling hills, and trees, symbolizing the fragmentation of ideological frameworks and the collapse of defined structures into disordered violent extremism.

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The end of ideological violence

By Clark McCauley

July 17, 2026

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Extremism without ideology

By Quassim Cassam

July 9, 2026 (Cited by: 2)

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Why the ‘salad bar’ might actually help extremism research – A reply to Horgan and Shayler

By Stephane Baele

July 8, 2026 (Cited by: 2)

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The erosion of conceptual clarity in the study of political violence

By Arie Perliger

July 6, 2026 (Cited by: 3)

Acculturation and developmental psychology, a response to Berry (2025)

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Why longitudinal is not developmental: Clarifying misconceptions in acculturation research – A response to Berry (2025)

By Philipp Jugert & Peter F. Titzmann

December 9, 2025 (Cited by: 1)

Unpacking the integration puzzle: Overlooked insights from meta-analytical research. A Response to Berry (2025)

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Unpacking the integration puzzle: Overlooked insights from meta-analytical research. A response to Berry (2025)

By Kinga Bierwiaczonek

November 11, 2025

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Comments on the papers in the Special Issue “Acculturation reimagined: Setting the stage for the next era of inquiry”

By John W. Berry

September 3, 2025 (Cited by: 1)