Paul Taylor: Psychology of Terrorism - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Paul Taylor is a Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University, Professor of Human Interaction at Twente University, and director of the Centre for Evidence and Research on Security Threats (CREST).

He is interested in how people cooperate. Using experimental, archival and field research, he has studied both the fundamental behavioral and cognitive procsses that make human interaction possible and, more practically, the kinds of tactics and policies that promote peaceful resolutions.

Research that Influenced Paul

Abbott, A. (2001). Time matters: On theory and method. Chicago Press.

Canter, D. V., and Heritage, R. (1990). A multivariate model of sexual offence behaviour: developments in offender profiling. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 1, 185-212.

King, G. (1997). A solution to the ecological inference problem: Reconstructing individual behavior from aggregate data. Princetown University Press.

Paul's Own Key Research

Donohue, W. A., & Taylor, P. J. (2003). Testing the role effect in terrorist negotiations. International Negotiation, 8, 527-547.

Jacques, K., & Taylor, P. J. (2013). Myths and realities of female-perpetrated terrorism. Law and Human Behavior, 37, 35-44.

Prentice, S., Taylor, P. J., Rayson, P., Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2011). Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: A case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict. Information Systems Frontiers, 13, 61-73.

Taylor, P. J., Jacques, K., Giebels, E., Levine, M., Best, R., Winter, J., & Rossi, G. (2008). Analysing forensic processes: Taking time into account. Issues in Forensic Psychology, 8, 45-57.

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