The Partisan Brain: Why People Are Attracted To Fake News And What To Do About It
Fake news is a form of influence and Andrea Pereira and Jay Van Bavel draw on their research illustrating how partisanship can lead people…
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Subtle Influence and Information disclosure: How Priming Works in Intelligence Interviews
Research shows that we can improve our chances of influencing someone to help us by priming them to be helpful. David Neequaye explores how…
Communicating across cultures
Paul Taylor writes about the difficulties of communicating across cultures, and why these matter. From small talk to empathising, he outlines some of the…
Terror attacks: how psychological research can help improve the emergency response
Western society is engaged in what has been referred to as an “arms race” against terrorism. Atrocities are increasingly characterised by novel and low-cost…
Disengagement: Lessons from Cults and Sectarian Groups
Suzanne Newcombe looks at cults and the reasons why people both leave and stay. Violent extremist ideologies, particularly those associated with ‘Islamic terrorism’, cause…
Transitions in negotiation – from crisis to success
An upset father barricades his daughter and himself inside the family home. He’s threatening to take her life and his own. How do you…
Reintegrating Extremists: ‘Deradicalisation’ and Desistance
Sarah Marsden writes for us on programmes that seek to help extremists make the transition from violent groups back into society. Highlighting the difficulties…
How messing with employee pensions can backfire on companies
Rosalind Searle, University of Glasgow and Charis Rice, Coventry University explain how messing with employee pensions can backfire on companies. With pension funds in…
Russian Influence And Interference On Twitter Following The 2017 UK Terrorist Attacks
Following the UK terror attacks in 2017, there was a systematic level of influence and interference by Russian-linked social media accounts trying to engineer…
Mindmap: What sources mean when they say “I Don’t Know”
When a source responds to a question with either ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t remember’, that may well be a legitimate response. However,…
Intelligence ethics: not an oxymoron
Applying intelligence and security activities to ethical concepts of the ‘Just War’ tradition. All professions have codes of ethics, often incorporated into legal regulation….
From extremist to democratic citizens
Tina Wilchen Christensen discusses a Swedish programme that helps to re-socialise extremists to become democratic citizens Leaving an extremist environment is difficult. Some individuals…