Clark McCauley

Clark McCauley is a professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College, where he has been on faculty since 1970, the same year he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. McCauley's research addresses terrorism, radicalization, and violent extremism, including work on ideological and nihilistic forms of political violence. Recent publications examine the motivations of political activists and terrorists, the Capitol breach of January 2021, and theoretical models of radicalization such as the two pyramids model.