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devoted actor: a standalone construct

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Psychology of conflict

Atran's framework for people willing to make costly sacrifices, including dying, for sacred values fused with group identity.

In psychology of conflict, devoted actor refers to atran's framework for people willing to make costly sacrifices, including dying, for sacred values fused with group identity. This meaning comes from Atran (2016) in Current Anthropology.[1]

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conflict4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs current3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs group4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Atran, S. (2016). The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures. Current Anthropology, 57(S13), S192-S203. https://doi.org/10.1086/685495

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