Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing

A growing body of research suggests that an individual’s willingness to fight and die for groups is rooted in the fusion of personal and group identities, especially when the group is threatened, violence is condoned, and the group’s enemies are dehumanised or demonised. Here we consider whether the...

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Autor principal: Ebner, Julia 1991- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Kavanagh, Christopher 1939- ; Whitehouse, Harvey 1964-
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2024
En: Terrorism and political violence
Año: 2024, Volumen: 36, Número: 7, Páginas: 944–961
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