Analysing the limits of rational choice in political and cultural conflict | Scott Atran
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2017-02-14

What motivates young people to join violent extremist movements such as ISIS? Scott Atran, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, shares research on the differences between the “value-driven decision-making” of “devoted actors” and the “economic decision-making” of “rational actors”, and argues that offering people material incentives to abandon their sacred values is counter-productive.

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