Constructing Extremism: Uncertainty Provocation and Reduction by Extremist Leaders

Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 228-245

  Seyranian, Viviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructing extremism; Extremist leadership; Freezing extremist identities; Identifying with groups; Out group threat; Prototypical leadership; Social identity framing; Uncertainty; Uncertainty identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885518343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444344073.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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