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Clark McCauley is affiliated with Bryn Mawr College in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Social Sciences, with notable focus on Sociology and Political Science. Their research intersects areas of Social Psychology and Philosophy, with occasional work in Insect Science and Clinical Psychology.

Their scholarly output emphasizes terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence alongside social and intergroup psychology. Other thematic interests include war ethics and justification, cultural differences and values, bullying, victimization and aggression, insect and pesticide research, and crime patterns and interventions.

The list of frequent publication venues for their work includes:

  • Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
  • Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr College)
  • The Journal of Intelligence Conflict and Warfare

Clark McCauley has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

  • Sophia Moskalenko
  • Tomislav Pavlović
  • Christian Leuprecht
  • David B. Skillicorn
  • Joshua D. Freilich

Their recent papers include:

  • "The ABC Model: Commentary from the Perspective of the Two Pyramids Model of Radicalization", 2020, Terrorism and Political Violence
  • "Bifactor analyses provide uncorrelated measures of activism intentions and radicalism intentions", 2021, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
  • "Two classes of political activists: evidence from surveys of U.S. college students and U.S. prisoners", 2022, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
  • "Growth opportunities in American and British terrorism research", 2023, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict
  • "Introduction to the Special Issue: putting the Capitol Breach in context", 2021, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

Clark McCauley has also published a book titled Radicalization to Terrorism with Oxford University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People's Relations to Their Work

    Amy Wrzesniewski;Clark McCauley;Paul Rozin;Barry Schwartz

  • Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors

    Jonathan Haidt;Clark McCauley;Paul Rozin

  • Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism

    Clark McCauley;Sophia Moskalenko

  • Body, Psyche, and Culture: The Relationship between Disgust and Morality

    Jonathan Haidt;Paul Rozin;Clark Mccauley;Sumio Imada

  • Measuring Political Mobilization: The Distinction Between Activism and Radicalism

    Sophia Moskalenko;Clark McCauley

  • Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us

    Clark R. McCauley;Sophia Moskalenko

  • Stereotyping: From prejudice to prediction.

    Clark McCauley;Christopher L. Stitt;Mary Segal

  • Understanding Political Radicalization: The Two-Pyramids Model

    Clark R. McCauley;Sophia Moskalenko

  • An individual and quantitative measure of stereotypes.

    Clark McCauley;Christopher L. Stitt

  • Disgust: The Body and Soul Emotion

    Paul Rozin;Jonathan Haidt;Clark R. McCauley

  • Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences.

    Yueh-Ting Lee;Lee J. Jussim;Clark R. McCauley

  • Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity: Comparisons and Evaluations of Paper-and-Pencil versus Behavioral Measures

    Paul Rozin;Jonathan Haidt;Clark McCauley;Lance Dunlop

  • The nature of social influence in groupthink: Compliance and internalization.

    Clark McCauley

  • Threat, Dehumanization, and Support for Retaliatory Aggressive Policies in Asymmetric Conflict:

    Ifat Maoz;Clark McCauley

  • Psychological issues in understanding terrorism and the response to terrorism.

    Clark McCauley

  • Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual From Radical Opinion to Radical Action

    Clark McCauley;Sophia Moskalenko

  • Sensitivity to indirect contacts with other persons: AIDS aversion as a composite of aversion to strangers, infection, moral taint, and misfortune.

    Paul Rozin;Maureen Markwith;Clark McCauley

  • Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish-Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Ifat Maoz;Clark McCauley

  • The popularity of conspiracy theories of presidential assassination: A Bayesian analysis.

    Clark McCauley;Susan Jacques

  • Group Identification under Conditions of Threat: College Students' Attachment to Country, Family, Ethnicity, Religion, and University Before and After September 11, 2001

    Sophia Moskalenko;Clark McCauley;Paul Rozin

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania
Lee Jussim
Lee Jussim Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt New York University
Gretchen B. Chapman
Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University
A.B. Cohen
A.B. Cohen Arizona State University
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Sonia Roccas
Sonia Roccas Open University of Israel
Joseph P. Newman
Joseph P. Newman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard S. John
Richard S. John University of Southern California
Emily B. Falk
Emily B. Falk University of Pennsylvania

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