Daniel W. Snook

Daniel W. Snook is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Florida Gulf Coast University whose research focuses on radicalization, political violence, and the psychological processes that connect individual belief systems to extremist behavior. Snook has examined how obsessive passion and deliberate engagement interact over time to drive violent and non-violent forms of extremism, as well as how crisis of belief functions as a catalyst for ideological change. Additional work addresses risk perception for terrorism, including how political orientation shapes public assessments of Islamist and right-wing terrorist threats, and how utilitarian moral reasoning mediates the relationship between passion and ideological violence. Snook has also published on religious conversion among Muslim populations in the United States and on public compliance with health safety measures.