How to Combat Youth Radicalization Using Learning Psychology

BY: JACK WIPPELL

Youth face radicalization risks due to social media, extremist messaging, misinformation, economic inequality, and political polarization.

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Rising risks: hate crimes, shootings, incel threats increase. Normalized extreme views, 469 anti-LGBTQ bills in US hinder improvement.

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Schools uniquely foster youth resilience to radicalization via student access, SEL programs, and understanding extremist mindsets.

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Radicalization research advances by studying "structures of thinking" in information processing of extremists and non-extremists.

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Extremist beliefs tied to lower cognitive complexity, resistance to conflicting evidence, and preference for intuitive thinking.

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Healthy thinking counters extremism. Extremists possess specific thinking structures. Build resiliency against extreme ideologies.

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SEL enhances thinking. CASEL: self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationships, decision-making.

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Cultivating social awareness and relationship skills fosters integrative complexity, reducing the tendency to hold radical beliefs.

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