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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might.
Scott Atran

Ann N Y Acad Sci· December 2025

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When group grievances become personal: The neural correlates of group and personal rejection.
Luis Marcos-Vidal, Helena Gil-Buitrago, Irene Cisma, Rosamunde C Hendricks, Scott Atran

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci· June 2025

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Transcultural pathways to the will to fight.
Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Scott Atran

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· June 2023

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Spiritual over physical formidability determines willingness to fight and sacrifice through loyalty in cross-cultural populations.
Chad C Tossell, Angel Gómez, Ewart J de Visser, Alexandra Vázquez, Bianca T Donadio, Scott Atran

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· February 2022

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Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals.
Angel Gómez, Scott Atran, Juana Chinchilla, Alexandra Vázquez, Lucia López-Rodríguez

Sci Rep· February 2022

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The will to fight.
Scott Atran

Science· September 2021

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Psychology of Transnational Terrorism and Extreme Political Conflict.
Scott Atran

Annu Rev Psychol· January 2021

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Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability.
Alexandra Vázquez, Lucía López-Rodríguez, Mercedes Martínez, Scott Atran, Ángel Gómez

Pers Soc Psychol Bull· October 2020

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Measures of devotion to ISIS and other fighting and radicalized groups.
Scott Atran

Curr Opin Psychol· October 2020

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What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence ?
Scott Atran

Behav Brain Sci· November 2019

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Ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal interactions underlie will to fight and die for a cause.
Clara Pretus, Nafees Hamid, Hammad Sheikh, Ángel Gómez, Jeremy Ginges, Scott Atran

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci· August 2019

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Neuroimaging 'will to fight' for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate.
Nafees Hamid, Clara Pretus, Scott Atran, Molly J Crockett, Jeremy Ginges

R Soc Open Sci· June 2019

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Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism.
Clara Pretus, Nafees Hamid, Hammad Sheikh, Jeremy Ginges, Adolf Tobeña, Scott Atran

Front Psychol· December 2018

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What motivates devoted actors to extreme sacrifice, identity fusion, or sacred values?
Scott Atran, Ángel Gómez

Behav Brain Sci· January 2018

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The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict.
Ángel Gómez, Lucía López-Rodríguez, Hammad Sheikh, Jeremy Ginges, Lydia Wilson, Scott Atran

Nat Hum Behav· September 2017

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Challenges in researching terrorism from the field.
Scott Atran, Robert Axelrod, Richard Davis, Baruch Fischhoff

Science· January 2017

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Thinking from God's perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever.
Jeremy Ginges, Hammad Sheikh, Scott Atran, Nichole Argo

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· January 2016

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Moralizing religions: Prosocial or a privilege of wealth?
Scott Atran

Behav Brain Sci· January 2016

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Devoted actors sacrifice for close comrades and sacred cause.
Scott Atran, Hammad Sheikh, Angel Gomez

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· December 2014

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Martyrdom's would-be myth buster.
Scott Atran

Behav Brain Sci· August 2014

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Sacred values in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: resistance to social influence, temporal discounting, and exit strategies.
Hammad Sheikh, Jeremy Ginges, Scott Atran

Ann N Y Acad Sci· September 2013

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From mutualism to moral transcendence.
Scott Atran

Behav Brain Sci· February 2013

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Religious and sacred imperatives in human conflict.
Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges

Science· May 2012

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Parasite stress is not so critical to the history of religions or major modern group formations.
Scott Atran

Behav Brain Sci· April 2012

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The price of your soul: neural evidence for the non-utilitarian representation of sacred values.
Gregory S Berns, Emily Bell, C Monica Capra, Michael J Prietula, Sara Moore, Scott Atran

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci· March 2012

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