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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.

The end of ideological violence

$A conceptual double-exposure photo showing a young adolescent's face blended with a cracked, weathered wall texture, symbolizing political alienation and disillusionment. The left half reveals the youth's serious expression while the right dissolves into fractured, peeling surfaces, visually representing distrust, powerlessness, and psychological fragmentation associated with the pathway from system-disillusionment toward political radicalism in Swedish adolescents.$

System-disillusioned youth radicalize: The role of political alienation in the formation of political radicalism

$A photo showing a fragmented, close-up human face in muted blue-gray tones, overlaid with distorted textures and streaks of vivid red. The image is heavily manipulated with cracked, glass-like fractures and double-exposure effects that obscure the eyes, evoking themes of psychological rupture, obscured identity, and violence—visually paralleling the article's discussion of ideology-free extremism fixated on aggression itself.$

Extremism without ideology

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Jonas R. Kunst

Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School

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Jonas R. Kunst is Professor of Communication at BI Norwegian Business School and Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. Kunst received a B.A. in General Psychology from the University of Bergen, completed an M.Phil. and PhD in Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Oslo, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oslo and Yale University before joining Oslo's faculty as an associate professor in 2019. Research interests include acculturation and majority-group adaptation, misinformation and conspiracy theories, and violent extremism, with more recent work examining the psychological implications of artificial intelligence. Kunst serves as Editor-in-Chief of advances.in/psychology and as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.