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New Scientist: What makes normal people become extremists?

August 18, 2017

START Researcher Martha Crenshaw was quoted, and former START Visiting Scholar Vera Mironova featured, in this article from New Scientist about radicalization.

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New Scientist: What makes normal people become extremists?

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