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ISIS in Their Own Words: Recruitment History, Motivations for Joining, Travel, Experiences in ISIS, and Disillusionment over Time – Analysis of 220 In-depth Interviews of ISIS Returnees, Defectors and Prisoners by Speckhard, Anne, Ellenberg, Molly D.

“…Two hundred and twenty Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) defectors, returnees, and imprisoned ISIS cadres were in-depth interviewed by the author, a…”
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Means substitutability in personal significance restoration by Contu, Federico, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W., Pierro, Antonio

“…Drawing on Significance Quest Theory, we hypothesized that when people experience a loss of significance related to a specific life domain, they will aim to…”
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Ambition and extreme behavior: relative deprivation leads ambitious individuals to self-sacrifice by Resta, Elena, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W, Pierro, Antonio

“…Ambitious people are characterized by strong motivation toward great and valuable objectives, with the superordinate goal to gain respect and recognition from…”
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Why Do I Seek Negative Feedback? Assessment Orientation, Self-Criticism, and Negative Feedback-Seeking by Liu, Zhaoyan, Yuan, Qinghong, Qian, Shanshan, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W.

“…Negative feedback plays an important role in employee performance improvement, yet little research has specifically examined the motivational factor that…”
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Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Facebook Campaigns in Europe by Speckhard, Anne, Ellenberg, Molly

“…Despite the territorial demise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], the group’s cyberoperations, which once drew an unprecedented 45,000 foreign…”
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Terrorism in time of the pandemic: exploiting mayhem by Kruglanski, Arie W., Gunaratna, Rohan, Ellenberg, Molly, Speckhard, Anne

“…Despite the world's overwhelming preoccupation with the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of international and domestic terrorism is not in decline according to…”
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Hypertargeting Facebook Profiles Vulnerable to ISIS Recruitment with “Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Video Clips” in Multiple Facebook Campaigns by Speckhard, Anne, Ellenberg, Molly, Shaghati, Haider, Izadi, Neima

“…Despite the territorial demise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], their cyberoperations continue to entice supporters. In an effort to disrupt ISIS’s…”
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ISIS and the Allure of Traditional Gender Roles by Speckhard, Anne, Ellenberg, Molly

“…As issues of repatriations of ISIS members and their families are hotly debated, exploring the factors that led over 40,000 men and women to leave their home…”
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Power of the network and power from the network: Group processes and radicalization by Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W.

“…The 3N model of radicalization posits that radicalization results from the confluence of the need for significance, the narrative, and the network. The network…”
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Beyond Violent Extremism: A 3N Perspective of Inceldom by Ellenberg, Molly, Speckhard, Anne, Kruglanski, Arie W.

“…Self-described "involuntary celibates" (incels) have become more visible in recent years, in part due to high-profile acts of mass violence committed by…”
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Militant jihadist exploitation of youth and young adult vulnerabilities in the Maldives by Speckhard, Anne, Ellenberg, Molly, Ali, Sheikh

“…There is little research on militant jihadist radicalisation, particularly the psychosocial factors underlying radicalisation, in the Maldives, which is often…”
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Romantic Relationships as a Source of Significance by Contu, Federico, Kruglanski, Arie W., Ellenberg, Molly, Yu, Huixian, Pierro, Antonio

“…Drawing on significance quest theory and its derived model of romantic relationships, we demonstrated that perceiving romantic partners as having socially…”
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People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant by Contu, Federico, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W., Pierro, Antonio

“…Drawing on significance quest theory, we hypothesized that when people in romantic relationships experience a general feeling of significance loss, they should…”
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At the roots of Allport’s “prejudice-prone personality”: The impact of need for cognitive closure on prejudice towards different outgroups and the mediating role of binding moral foundations by Albarello, Flavia, Contu, Federico, Baldner, Conrad, Vecchione, Michele, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W., Pierro, Antonio

“…In line with the seminal ideas on the “prejudice-prone personality” provided by Allport (1954) in the book The Nature of Prejudice, various studies have…”
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Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration by Resta, Elena, Kruglanski, Arie W., Ellenberg, Molly, Pierro, Antonio

“…Conceptualizing aggression as elicited by the significance‐reducing effects of frustration, and ambition as reflecting the quest for significance, we tested…”
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It's All About Significance: A Reframing in Response to Commentaries by Kruglanski, Arie W., Ellenberg, Molly, Pierro, Antonio

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Marie Curie vs. Serena Williams: ambition leads to extremism through obsessive (but not harmonious) passion by Resta, Elena, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W., Pierro, Antonio

“…Extremism occurs when a certain need, for instance, significance quest, overrides other human motivations. Based on the Significance Quest Theory, we argue…”
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Ambitious people are more prone to support resource-intensive aid programs by Viola, Marta, Kruglanski, Arie W., Ellenberg, Molly, Pierro, Antonio

“…In line with Significance Quest Theory (SQT, Kruglanski et al., 2022) and Costly Signaling Theory (CST, Zahavi, 1995), the present research aims to investigate…”
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Need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness mediate the effect of concern about ecological threats on the need for strong leadership by Contu, Federico, Ellenberg, Molly, Kruglanski, Arie W., Pantaleo, Giuseppe, Pierro, Antonio

“…The present research utilizes an evolutionary framework to investigate the process underlying the recent rise of several populist, “strongmen” leaders…”
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People Who Need People (and Some Who Think They Don't): On Compensatory Personal and Social Means of Goal Pursuit by Milyavsky, Maxim, Kruglanski, Arie W., Gelfand, Michele, Chernikova, Marina, Ellenberg, Molly, Pierro, Antonio

“…We propose a new theoretical model depicting the compensatory relations between personal agency and social assistance. It suggests two general hypotheses,…”
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