Special Issue on Violent Extremism 2026 – Definition & Research Articles | Advances in Psychology

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A print-style illustration showing a vast murmuration of birds swirling in looping, overlapping spirals across a gradient of navy blue, coral orange, and cream. Thousands of small cream, golden, and dark silhouettes flow in shifting directions with no fixed path, visually representing societal change as continual, nonlinear dynamic social evolution rather than linear progress or regress, emerging from interacting political, cultural, and social systems.

Beyond progress vs. regress: Societal change as dynamic social evolution

By Colin Wayne Leach, Shaunette T. Ferguson, & Betselot Biruck Wondimu

A photo-style sepia illustration showing a reimagined Asch conformity experiment: seven people in 1950s suits sit in a row at a long wooden table, all pointing in unison toward a humanoid robot with glowing eyes at the end. A hand holds up a card with three vertical lines of differing lengths, symbolizing social pressure on AI agents to conform to group opinions in multimodal language model perceptual tasks.

Prompt-mediated perceptual conformity in multimodal language models follows Social Impact Theory

By Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, & David Garcia

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A Behavior-Change model of jihadi media: The Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills framework and TTP video propaganda

By Sachal Jacob, Weeda Mehran, Jiaxin Tong, & Anthony Lemieux

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Commentary

The erosion of conceptual clarity in the study of political violence

By Arie Perliger

July 6, 2026 (Cited by: 5)

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Perspective

Why the ‘salad bar of ideologies’ does not help us understand contemporary violent extremism

By John Horgan & Morgan Shayler

June 16, 2026 (Cited by: 7)