People With Extremist Attitudes Perform Poorly on Difficult Cognitive Tasks [Study]

Medicine & Technology Feb 22, 2021

Researchers from Cambridge University said that those with extremist attitudes tend to find it difficult to perform complex mental tasks. Their findings could be used to spot people at risk from radicalization.

Remembering 9/11: The Psychology Behind Terrorism

Sep 11, 2020

Psychologists try to explain the factors that could lead to terrorism like the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda.

Inadequate Evaluation to Counter Violent Extremism May Increase Terror Threat

May 22, 2019

The researchers noted that while radicalized views may open a path to politically motivated violence, these opinions are not criminal or harmful in themselves and do not always lead to inevitable engagement with a violent organization

US President Obama Vows To Defeat ISIS

Nov 23, 2015

President Barrack Obama vows to defeat ISIS and terrorism at the summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mali’s Under State Of Emergency After Hotel Attack

Nov 22, 2015

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita declared a state of emergency over the country after a terrorist attack.

APEC Leaders Unite To Stop Terrorism

Nov 22, 2015

Philippines opened up the discussion of terrorism over the 21 leaders who are present in the event of the The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Spokane Psychologists Say A-Okay, But What the Senate Say About CIA’s Interrogation Techniques?

Dec 12, 2014

Allegedly created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States in collaboration with psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen from Spokane, the “enhanced interrogation techniques” sought out employ an interrogation approach coined by the psychologists, known as “learned helplessness”. Aside from severe physical harm and abuse, which detainees experience in collaboration with other intensely physical torturous methods, this “learned helplessness” predicted that detainees would become passive and depressed when faced with an inevitable and unforeseeable chain of events that they could neither predict nor control.

SHOCKER—Senate Committee Finds Waterboarding and Torture Methods to be Ineffective Against Terrorists

Dec 11, 2014

We may live in the 21st century, with many conventions in place to protect the rights of the general public, but if you’re a prisoner of war you’re likely to find that those same courtesies are not extended to you too. In fact, as it so happens, torture may be on your captor’s list of to-do’s. It’s been a long-awaited document, approached with some hesitation by the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, but on Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Senate released its torture report, recounting endless accounts of post-9/11 detention and interrogation programs initiated by the United States’ CIA in more horrific detail than you could imagine. But what’s worse, is that the report revealed that the tactics of torture likely had little to no efficacy, even when inflicting bodily harm to acquire intel.