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Scott Atran is an anthropologist and psychologists whose area of study focuses on values, conflict negotiation, and the evolutionary psychology of religion.
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Much of Scott Atran’s work has focused on values, conflict negotiation, and the evolutionary psychology of religion. Most of his work combines two or more of these areas to produce theories with real-world applications. For example, he studied how individuals hold and react to value violations (Atran and Axelrod 2008), applied this theory by asking Zionists and Palestinians living in the West Bank how they would react to different peace offerings were they to be proposed (Ginges et al. 2007), and summarized his data to be used by international organizations (Pinker 2011). Other notable contributions include his work on transnational terrorism, where he argues that terrorist ideology stems from nepotism, not psychopathy, with findings drawn from field work internationally (Pinker 2011...
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Atran, S. (2007). Terrorism and radicalization: What to do, what not to do. Presentation to U. S. Department of State and U.K. House of Lords, October-November. Retrieved from http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/Atran07/index.html
Atran, S., & Axelrod, R. (2008). Reframing sacred values. Negotiation Journal, 24(3), 221–246.
Atran, S., Axelrod, R., & Davis, R. (2007). Sacred barriers to conflict resolution. Science, 317(5841), 1039.
Downey, G. (2015). Scott atran on youth, violent extremism and promoting peace. Retrieved from http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2015/04/25/scott-atran-on-youth-violent-extremism-and-promoting-peace/
Ginges, J., Atran, S., Medin, D., & Shikaki, K. (2007). Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(18), 7357–7360.
Lustick, I. (2006). Negotiating truth: The holocaust, lehavdil, and al-Nakba. Journal of International Affairs, 60, 51–80.
Pinker, S. (2011). The better angels of our nature: Why violence has declined. London: Penguin.
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Willockx, Z. (2016). Scott Atran. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_515-1
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