Lone-Actor Terrorism: A Conversation with Jacob Holzer

Описание: Dr. Jacob Holzer is an award-winning and board-certified forensic psychiatrist who continues to practice at McLean Hospital as well as serves as a professor at Harvard Medical School.  His extremely valuable text, Lone-Actor Terrorism: an Integrated Framework, provides us with the subtle and comprehensive perspectives necessary to guide us on this pressing topic of lone-actor terrorism.

My chapter, which I co-wrote with Jon Caven-Atack, Mansi J. Shah, and Simran Malhotra, adopts a social psychology lens to explore the formative influences of lone-actor terrorists. Specifically, we use the BITE model (Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control) to help us understand how the internet, in a fashion similar to a single authoritarian cult leader, can exert undue influence, resulting in a form of online indoctrination. In the article, we profile three individuals who committed acts of lone-actor terrorism and look at how this BITE model may help to explain their motivations and actions. The article is one of many in a set of illuminating contributions to the topic of lone-actor terrorism that is contained in Lone-Actor Terrorism: an Integrated Framework.  

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