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  • 8 - It’s the Group, Not Just the Individual

  • from Part II - Drivers of the Exclusion–Extremism Link
  • Edited by Michaela Pfundmair, Federal University of Administrative Sciences, Germany, Andrew H. Hales, University of Mississippi, Kipling D. Williams, Purdue University, Indiana
  • Book:
    Exclusion and Extremism
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024, pp 166-183

  • Summary

    In this chapter, we first address the question of why groups are so much “better at” terrorism than individuals. Specifically, we argue that, when trying to explain terrorism, it makes more sense to consider people’s social identities than their personal identities, and thus to focus on the group rather than the individual. We present seven pieces of evidence for this idea. Subsequently, we describe studies in which we employ a new paradigm called “Bovenland” to study experimentally the role of multiple and ongoing threats to one’s social identity (in terms of exclusion) in explaining inaction, normative, and (extreme) nonnormative behavior. We conclude by articulating how and when threats to one’s social identity are associated with the need to restore one’s image by displaying violent behavior.