Neuroimaging 'will to fight' for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate
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- dc.contributor.author Hamid, Nafees
- dc.contributor.author Petrus, Clara
- dc.contributor.author Atran, Scott
- dc.contributor.author Crockett, Molly J.
- dc.contributor.author Ginges, Jeremy
- dc.contributor.author Sheikh, Hammad
- dc.contributor.author Tobeña, Adolf
- dc.contributor.author Carmona, Susanna
- dc.contributor.author Gómez, Angel
- dc.contributor.author Davis, Richard
- dc.contributor.author Vilarroya, Óscar
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-15T07:20:11Z
- dc.date.available 2020-04-15T07:20:11Z
- dc.date.issued 2019
- dc.description.abstract Violent intergroup conflicts are often motivated by commitments to abstract ideals such as god or nation, so-called 'sacred' values that are insensitive to material trade-offs. There is scant knowledge of how the brain processes costly sacrifices for such cherished causes. We studied willingness to fight and die for sacred values using fMRI in Barcelona, Spain, among supporters of a radical Islamist group. We measured brain activity in radicalized individuals as they indicated their willingness to fight and die for sacred and non-sacred values, and as they reacted to peers' ratings for the same values. We observed diminished activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), inferior frontal gyrus, and parietal cortex while conveying willingness to fight and die for sacred relative to non-sacred values-regions that have previously been implicated in calculating costs and consequences. An overlapping region of the dlPFC was active when viewing conflicting ratings of sacred values from peers, to the extent participants were sensitive to peer influence, suggesting that it is possible to induce flexibility in the way people defend sacred values. Our results cohere with a view that 'devoted actors' motivated by an extreme commitment towards sacred values rely on distinctive neurocognitve processes that can be identified.
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- dc.identifier.citation Hamid N, Pretus C, Atran S, Crockett MJ, Ginges J, Sheikh H, et al. Neuroimaging 'will to fight' for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate. R Soc Open Sci. 2019 Jun 12; 6(6):181585. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181585
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181585
- dc.identifier.issn 2054-5703
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44215
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Royal Society
- dc.rights Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- dc.subject.keyword fMRI
- dc.subject.keyword Neuroimaging
- dc.subject.keyword Radicalization
- dc.subject.keyword Sacred values
- dc.subject.keyword Violent extremism
- dc.subject.keyword Will to fight
- dc.title Neuroimaging 'will to fight' for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate
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