Internet, the great radicalizer? Exploring relationships between seeking for online extremist materials and cognitive radicalization in young adults

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Highlights：

• Empirically testing the assumption that the internet contributes to radicalization outcomes.

• Using large N to identify relationships between different types of radical content exposure and radicalization outcomes.

• Beheading videos are the most sought radical materials, but the least associated with cognitive radicalization.

• Jihadist magazines are least sought, but the strongest related to cognitive radicalization.

摘要

•Empirically testing the assumption that the internet contributes to radicalization outcomes.•Using large N to identify relationships between different types of radical content exposure and radicalization outcomes.•Beheading videos are the most sought radical materials, but the least associated with cognitive radicalization.•Jihadist magazines are least sought, but the strongest related to cognitive radicalization.

论文关键词：Information seeking,Propaganda,Juvenile delinquency,Moral disengagement,Cognitive radicalization,Extremism

论文评审过程：Received 14 May 2020, Revised 24 August 2020, Accepted 31 August 2020, Available online 6 September 2020, Version of Record 15 September 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106549