Terrorist Decision Making

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Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature

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The Psychology of Terrorism: An Agenda for the 21st Century

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A Theoretical Analysis of Transnational Terrorism

1983 • 371 citations

Diffusion of responsibility and level of risk taking in groups.

1964 • 324 citations

Mechanisms of moral disengagement

2017 • 303 citations

Violence as Communication: Insurgent Terrorism and the Western News Media

1982 • 297 citations

Aggressive behaviors within polities, 1948-1962: a cross - national study 1

1966 • 297 citations

The age of terrorism

1987 • 293 citations

Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth

1968 • 288 citations

The calculus of dissent: An analysis of terrorists' choice of targets

1988 • 283 citations

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1981 • 258 citations

Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism: the Internet As a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy

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Structural Causes of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Towards a Causal Model

1993 • 249 citations

The Logic of Terrorism: Terrorist Behavior as a Product of Strategic Choice

1998 • 247 citations

Theories of terrorism: Instrumental and organizational approaches

1987 • 236 citations

Cheshire-cat logic: The recurring theme of terrorist abnormality in psychological research

1998 • 230 citations

On the Etiology of Internal Wars

1965 • 203 citations

Terrorism and signalling

1993 • 196 citations

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1982 • 195 citations

The roles of information, discussion, and consensus in group risk taking

1965 • 194 citations

The Work of Wilfred Bion on Groups

1970 • 188 citations

Why Violence Spreads: The Contagion of International Terrorism

1980 • 187 citations

Terrorism in context

1995 • 185 citations

Terrorist psycho-logic: Terrorist behavior as a product of psychological forces.

1990 • 185 citations

Secret Societies and Social Structure

1981 • 176 citations

The media and terrorism: A reassessment

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Profile of a terrorist

1977 • 161 citations

The Convert as a Social Type

1983 • 147 citations

Modern Revolutions, An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon.

1973 • 146 citations

Inside terrorist organizations

1989 • 146 citations

Why Terrorism Subsides: A Comparative Study of Canada and the United States

1989 • 144 citations

Political Organizations

1974 • 129 citations

The Haymarket Tragedy

1984 • 127 citations

Notes on a psychodynamic theory of terrorist behavior

1984 • 121 citations

Northern Ireland, a psychological analysis

1980 • 121 citations

Terrorism: Theory and applications

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The Scale of Terrorist Attacks as a Signal of Resources

1994 • 109 citations

The Terrorism Reader

2003 • 107 citations

The Haymarket Tragedy

1984 • 105 citations

Right‐wing terrorism in a comparative perspective: The case of split delegitimization

1995 • 104 citations

Origins of Terrorism

1990 • 102 citations

Crusaders Criminals Crazies: Terror and Terrorism in Our Time

1977 • 100 citations

Dynamics of Terrorism

1983 • 96 citations

The Psychology of Political Terrorism

2004 • 96 citations

The study of terrorism : definitional problems

1980 • 90 citations

The process of delegitimation: Towards a linkage theory of political terrorism

1991 • 90 citations

The mind of the political terrorist

1992 • 89 citations

An Organizational Approach to the Analysis of Political Terrorism

1985 • 82 citations

The Strategy and Tactics of Revolutionary Terrorism

1977 • 81 citations

Terrorism as a Desperate Game

1981 • 79 citations

The Basque Insurgents: ETA, 1952-1980

1984 • 77 citations

Sources of Rebellion in Western Societies: Some Quantitative Evidence

1970 • 77 citations

Groupthink Reconsidered

1989 • 76 citations

Psychological dimensions of political terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany

1979 • 74 citations

Behavioral and quantitative perspectives on terrorism

1981 • 73 citations

Chapter 9 Terrorism: Theory and applications

1995 • 72 citations

Small Groups and Political Behavior: A Study of Leadership

2015 • 70 citations

Inside Terrorist Organizations

2013 • 69 citations

Group identification under conditions of external danger*

1963 • 69 citations

Perspectives on Terrorism

1983 • 68 citations

Social psychology of terrorist groups.

1987 • 64 citations

The psychodynamics of terrorism

1978 • 64 citations

Terrorism and the Media: A Rhetorical Genre

1986 • 63 citations

The Russian Anarchists

1967 • 62 citations

Patterns in the lives of ETA members

1983 • 60 citations

Reasons and Reason: Collective Political Activity in Comparative and Historical Perspective

1981 • 56 citations

Security and coordination in a clandestine organization

2000 • 56 citations

The Rise and Fall of Italian Terrorism

2019 • 56 citations

When terrorists do the talking: Reflections on terrorist literature

1987 • 51 citations

The dynamics of the armed struggle

1999 • 48 citations

The Subjective Reality of the Terrorist: Ideological and Psychological Factors in Terrorism

1988 • 48 citations

Rewarding Fire with Fire: Effects of Retaliation on Terrorist Group Dynamics

1987 • 47 citations

7. The Political Socialization of West German Terrorists

1986 • 46 citations

Small Groups and Political Behavior: A Study of Leadership.

1962 • 45 citations

Blood and Rage: The Story of the Japanese Red Army

1990 • 45 citations

Introduction to political terrorism

1989 • 41 citations

A critique of the mental disorder perspective of political terrorism

1981 • 41 citations

Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red Army

1989 • 40 citations

Terrorist targeting: Tactics, trends, and potentialities

1993 • 37 citations

Hostilité, Conformité, Fraternité: The Group Dynamics of Terrorist Behavior

1986 • 37 citations

Introduction: On Individual Motivations in Underground Political Organizations

1992 • 37 citations

Individual Terror: Concept and Typology

1977 • 37 citations

A Political Organization Approach to Transnational Terrorism

1986 • 35 citations

Decisions to use terrorism: Psychological constraints on instrumental reasoning

1992 • 34 citations

American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics.

1983 • 32 citations

Understanding terrorist behavior: The limits and opportunities of psychological inquiry.

1990 • 31 citations

Roots of Revolution

2001 • 31 citations

Observations on "Why Violence Spreads"

1980 • 31 citations

Terrorists -- What Are They Like? How Some Terrorists Describe Their World and Actions

1979 • 29 citations

Revolutionary origins and conditional mobilization

1996 • 28 citations

Principles of Human Geography

1927 • 28 citations

Terrorist and victim: Psychiatric and physiological approaches from a social science perspective

1986 • 27 citations

Terrorism and the Media

2003 • 26 citations

Fanaticism: A Historical and Psychoanalytical Study

1984 • 25 citations

Abu Nidal A Gun For Hire

1992 • 24 citations

Autopsy on people's war

1973 • 23 citations

Accomplice or Witness? The Media's Role in Terrorism

2000 • 23 citations

Land and Freedom: The Origins of Russian Terrorism, 1876-1879

1989 • 23 citations

The Lawyer Terrorist and His Comrades

1985 • 20 citations

Islamist organizations on the Internet

1999 • 20 citations

Political parties and the formation of terrorist groups

1990 • 20 citations

A model of the psychological causes of oppositional political terrorism.

1996 • 20 citations

Identités collectives et changement social : les cultures collectives comme dynamique d'action

1982 • 19 citations

Terrorism and Beyond an International Conference on Terrorism and Low-Level Conflict

1982 • 19 citations

The Psychodynamics of Mindlessness and Dissent in Small Groups

1990 • 17 citations

Internal organizational problems and the sources of tensions of terrorist movements as catalysts of violence∗

1978 • 16 citations

Infrastructures of Terrorist Organizations

1981 • 15 citations

On Terrorists and Terrorism

1982 • 14 citations

The Values in Violence: Organizational and Political Objectives of Terrorist Groups

1983 • 14 citations

Ideological and Interpersonal Change in the Radical Protest Movement

1972 • 12 citations

The terrorists' dilemmas: Some implicit rules of the game1

1980 • 11 citations

Against the Current: The Life of Karl Heinzen (1809-80)

1945 • 10 citations

Fanaticism: A Historical and Psychological Study by André Haynal, Miklos Molnar, Gérard de Puymège (Schocken Books; 282 pp.; $19.95)

1983 • 9 citations

Sharp dressed men: Peru's Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

1993 • 9 citations

Understanding the next act

1979 • 9 citations

The Spirit of Revolt

1975 • 8 citations

Sir Thomas Browne and witchcraft

1981 • 7 citations

The Legacy of Bakunin

1970 • 7 citations

Fanaticism: A Historical and Psychoanalytical Study

1982 • 6 citations

Biographical Features of Terrorists

1985 • 5 citations

The Transnational Flow of Information as a Cause of Terrorism

2019 • 5 citations

Anarchism and Anti-Intellectualism in Russia

1966 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations