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4126
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Overview

Jerrold M. Post was affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple fields within the social sciences, with a primary focus on Social Sciences and Psychology. The areas of research included subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics covered various dimensions of psychology and political science, including:

  • History, Medicine, and Leadership
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Jerrold M. Post collaborated frequently with Michaela Pfundmair, indicating some degree of interdisciplinary or joint research activity.

This scholar did not have recent papers listed, nor any specific book publications documented from particular publishers. There was no record of awards attributed to their career.

Best Publications

  • The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda

    Jerrold M. Post

  • The terrorists in their own words: Interviews with 35 incarcerated Middle Eastern terrorists∗∗This research was conducted with the support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.

    Jerrold Post;Ehud Sprinzak;Laurita Denny

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

    Jerrold M. Post

  • Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred

    Robert S. Robins;Jerrold M. Post

  • The Radical Group in Context: 1. An Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Group Risk for Terrorism

    Jerrold M. Post;Keven G. Ruby;Eric D. Shaw

  • The psychology of suicide terrorism.

    Jerrold M. Post;Farhana Ali;Schuyler W. Henderson;Stephen Shanfield

  • The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton

    Jerrold M. Post

  • What Should This Fight Be Called?: Metaphors of Counterterrorism and Their Implications

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Martha Crenshaw;Jerrold M. Post;Jeff Victoroff

  • Current Concepts of the Narcissistic Personality: Implications for Political Psychology

    Jerrold M. Post

  • When Hatred is Bred in the Bone: Psycho-cultural Foundations of Contemporary Terrorism.

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  • Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior

    Jerrold M. Post

  • Narcissism and the Charismatic Leader-Follower Relationship

    Jerrold M. Post

  • Notes on a Psychodynamic Theory of Terrorist Behavior

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  • The Radical Group in Context: 2. Identification of Critical Elements in the Analysis of Risk for Terrorism by Radical Group Type

    Jerrold M. Post;Keven G. Ruby;Eric D. Shaw

  • Saddam Husseim of Iraq: a political psychology profile

    Jerrold M. Post

  • The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders

    Jerrold M. Post

  • From car bombs to logic bombs: The growing threat from information terrorism

    Jerrold M. Post;Keven G. Ruby;Eric D. Shaw

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

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  • When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King

    Jerrold M. Post;Robert S. Robins

  • Hostilité, conformité, fraternité: the group dynamics of terrorist behavior.

    Jerrold M. Post

  • The Mind of the Terrorist

    Jerrold M. Post

  • "When hatred is bred in the bone:" the social psychology of terrorism.

    Jerrold M. Post

  • Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the Developing World by Robert I. Rotberg. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2012. 216 pp. Paper, $25.00.

    Jerrold M. Post

  • The Changing Face of Terrorism in the 21st Century: The Communications Revolution and the Virtual Community of Hatred

    Jerrold M. Post;Cody McGinnis;Kristen Moody

  • Crimes of Obedience

    Jerrold M. Post;Lara K. Panis

Frequent Co-Authors

Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park

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