Scott Atran

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Scott Atran is affiliated with the following schools: University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, Columbia University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley, Reed College, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, University of Oxford, University of Michigan

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#1018

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#392

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Scott Atran's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Social Anthropology Reed College

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According to Wikipedia, Scott Atran is an American-French cultural anthropologist who is Emeritus Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, Research Professor at the University of Michigan, and cofounder of ARTIS International and of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence, religion, indigenous environmental management and the cross-cultural foundations of biological classification; and he has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders and Native American peoples.

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Published Works

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2002) (748)
Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion (2004) (663)
Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (2003) (607)
Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars (1998) (582)
Categorization and Reasoning among Tree Experts: Do All Roads Lead to Rome? (1997) (467)
Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict (2007) (359)
The Tree of Life: Universal and Cultural Features of Folkbiological Taxonomies and Inductions (1997) (353)
The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across cultures. (2004) (333)
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010) (308)
The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populations. (2005) (297)
Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature (2007) (295)
Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives (2006) (281)
The native mind and the cultural construction of nature. (2008) (279)
Cultural and experiential differences in the development of folkbiological induction (2003) (267)
Cognitive foundations of natural history: Towards an anthropology of science. (1992) (256)
Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict (2012) (211)
Reframing Sacred Values (2008) (193)
Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution (2007) (189)
The moral logic and growth of suicide terrorism (2006) (184)
Folkecology and commons management in the Maya Lowlands. (1999) (183)
Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (2010) (158)
A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across cultures (2002) (151)
Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (146)
Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts (2001) (146)
The Devoted Actor (2016) (137)
Psychology out of the laboratory: the challenge of violent extremism. (2011) (130)
Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons (2002) (124)
The price of your soul: neural evidence for the non-utilitarian representation of sacred values (2011) (123)
In Gods We Trust (2005) (122)
Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies (2004) (121)
Does rank have its privilege? Inductive inferences within folkbiological taxonomies (1997) (121)
Mishandling Suicide Terrorism (2004) (121)
Folkbiology of freshwater fish (2006) (110)
Connecting Terrorist Networks (2008) (110)
Devoted actors sacrifice for close comrades and sacred cause (2014) (110)
Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence (2004) (106)
The trouble with memes (2001) (105)
War as a moral imperative (not just practical politics by other means) (2011) (98)
FOLKBIOLOGY DOESN'T COME FROM FOLKPSYCHOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM YUKATEK MAYA IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (2001) (95)
What Motivates Participation in Violent Political Action (2009) (89)
Essentialism and Folkbiology: evidence from Brazil (2002) (88)
Mapping the mind: Core domains versus scientific theories: Evidence from systematics and Itza-Maya folkbiology (1994) (87)
Inductive reasoning in folkbiological thought. (1999) (83)
The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict (2017) (81)
Causal constraints on categories and categorical constraints on biological reasoning across cultures. (1995) (80)
Empirical Evidence for the Devoted Actor Model (2016) (78)
The Nature of Folk‐Botanical Life Forms (1985) (74)
Sacred values and conflict over Iran’s nuclear program (2010) (73)
Learning without teaching: Its place in culture. (1991) (71)
Cognitive and Emotional Processes in the Cultural Transmission of Natural and Nonnatural Beliefs (2003) (70)
Humiliation and the Inertia Effect: Implications for Understanding Violence and Compromise in Intractable Intergroup Conflicts (2008) (70)
Categorization and reasoning in relation to culture and expertise (2002) (69)
Generic species and basic levels: Essence and appearance in folk biology (1997) (67)
Intergroup Conflict (2018) (64)
Religion, group threat and sacred values (2012) (64)
Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism (2018) (52)
Challenges in researching terrorism from the field (2017) (48)
Ordinary constraints on the semantics of living kinds (1987) (44)
The Native Mind : Biological Categorization , Reasoning , and Decision Making in Development and Across Cultures (2002) (43)
The Surrogate Colonization Of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989) (41)
Sacred values in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: resistance to social influence, temporal discounting, and exit strategies (2013) (41)
For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight (2014) (40)
Origin of the species and genus concepts: An anthropological perspective (1987) (39)
Who Becomes a Terrorist Today (2010) (39)
1. Basic Conceptual Domains (1989) (36)
The Nature of Belief (2007) (35)
Emerging sacred values: Iran’s nuclear program (2009) (33)
Why Folkbiology Matters: Resource Conflict Despite Shared Goals and Knowledge (2007) (33)
Chapter 6 Noninstrumental Reasoning over Sacred Values: An Indonesian Case Study (2009) (32)
Knowledge and action: Cultural models of nature and resource management in Mesoamerica (1997) (30)
Plants Of The Petén Itza' Maya (2004) (30)
Classifying nature across cultures (1995) (29)
Decentralize, adapt and cooperate (2010) (29)
Sacred Values and Cultural Conflict (2013) (27)
Modular and cultural factors in biological understanding: an experimental approach to the cognitive basis of science (2002) (27)
Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program. (2009) (26)
PATHWAYS TO AND FROM VIOLENT EXTREMISM: THE CASE FOR SCIENCE-BASED FIELD RESEARCH Statement Before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities, March 10, 2010 (2010) (26)
A garden experiment revisited: inter-generational change in environmental perception and management of the Maya Lowlands, Guatemala (2013) (25)
Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever (2015) (25)
The biology of cultural conflict (2012) (24)
Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers (2009) (24)
Hamula organisation and Masha'a tenure in Palestine (1986) (24)
Neuroimaging ‘will to fight’ for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate (2019) (23)
The Case for Modularity: Sin or Salvation? (2001) (23)
The Trouble with Memes: Inference versus Imitation in Cultural Creation (2018) (23)
A Failure of Imagination (Intelligence, WMDs, and “Virtual Jihad”) (2006) (21)
Who Wants to be a Martyr (2003) (20)
Psychology of Transnational Terrorism and Extreme Political Conflict. (2020) (19)
The Essence of Folkbiology: A Reply to Randall and Hunn (1987) (19)
Adaptationism for Human Cognition: Strong, Spurious or Weak? (2005) (19)
Jemaah Islamiyah's radical madrassah networks (2008) (18)
A Question of Honour: Why the Taliban Fight and What to Do About It (2010) (18)
Small groups find fatal purpose through the web (2005) (18)
The Devoted Actor as Parochial Altruist: Sectarian Morality, Identity Fusion, and Support for Costly Sacrifices (2014) (18)
The Making of a Terrorist: A Need for Understanding from the Field Testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Washington, DC, March 12, 2008 (2008) (17)
Thinking about biology. Modular constraints on categorization and reasoning in the everyday life of Americans, Maya, and scientists (2002) (17)
The Neuropsychology of Religion (2002) (17)
TRENDS IN SUICIDE TERRORISM: SENSE AND NONSENSE (2004) (16)
Counting casualties: A framework for respectful, useful records (2007) (16)
Stones against the Iron Fist, Terror within the Nation: Alternating Structures of Violence and Cultural Identity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1990) (16)
Covert Fragmenta and the Origins of the Botanical Family (1983) (15)
Ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal interactions underlie will to fight and die for a cause (2019) (14)
How Words Could End a War (2009) (14)
Why minds create gods: Devotion, deception, death, and arational decision making (2004) (12)
Theories of knowledge and culture (1982) (11)
Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability (2020) (11)
Martyrdom's would-be myth buster (2014) (11)
A Cheater-Detection Module? Dubious Interpretations of the Wason Selection Task and Logic (2001) (11)
The Emir: An Interview with Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Alleged Leader of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah Organization (2005) (11)
Religion's Innate Origins and Evolutionary Background (2007) (10)
Pre-theoretical aspects of Aristotelian definition and classification of animals: The case for common sense (1985) (10)
The role of youth in countering violent extremism and promoting peace (2015) (9)
DEVOTED ACTOR VERSUS RATIONAL ACTOR MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING WORLD CONFLICT Presented To The National Security Council At The White House, September 14, 2006 (2006) (9)
The Scientific Landscape of Religion: Evolution, Culture, and Cognition (2008) (8)
Modest adaptationism: Muddling through cognition and language (2002) (8)
To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East (2009) (7)
What Motivates Participation in Violent Political Action: Selective Incentives or Parochial Altruism? (2020) (7)
Dangerous Terrorists as Devoted Actors (2015) (7)
Why We Talk To Terrorists (2010) (7)
The 'Virtual Hand' of Jihad (2005) (7)
Managing Arab kinship and marriage (1985) (6)
War, martyrdom, and terror: evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence (2011) (6)
Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Damascus, Syria, December 15, 2009) (2010) (6)
Cultural Epidemiology , and the Spirit of the Commons A Garden Experiment in the Maya Lowlands , 1991 – 2001 1 by (2002) (6)
The Peacock's Tale: Lessons from evolution for effective signaling in international politics (2012) (6)
A Leaner, Meaner Jihad (2004) (6)
Social science. Sacred barriers to conflict resolution. (2007) (6)
Managing the Risks of Climate Change and Terrorism (2012) (5)
Démembrement social et remembrement agraire dans un village palestinien (1985) (5)
In the Same Light as Slavery: Building a Global Antiterrorist Consensus (2006) (5)
The Jihadist Mutation (2004) (4)
A metamodule for conceptual integration: Language or theory of mind? (2002) (4)
Folk Biological Cognition (1993) (4)
Combating Al Qaeda's Splinters: Mishandling Suicide Terrorism (2004) (4)
Parasite stress is not so critical to the history of religions or major modern group formations (2012) (4)
The Role of the Devoted Actor in War, Revolution, and Terrorism (2017) (4)
Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism: Whither ‘ethnoscience’? (1993) (4)
The Strategic Threat from Suicide Terror (2003) (4)
Understanding How the Privileged Become Violent Fanatics (2010) (4)
RELIGION, SUICIDE, TERRORISM, AND THE MORAL FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (2007) (4)
Multi-‐Method Assessment of ISIL (2014) (4)
Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals (2022) (3)
What motivates devoted actors to extreme sacrifice, identity fusion, or sacred values? (2018) (3)
Moralizing religions: Prosocial or a privilege of wealth? (2016) (3)
Measures of devotion to ISIS and other fighting and radicalized groups. (2020) (3)
The Devoted Actor Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Con fl ict across Cultures by Scott Atran (2016) (3)
SACRED VALUES, TERRORISM, AND THE LIMITS OF RATIONAL CHOICE (2006) (3)
Anti-Anti-Cartesianism: Reply to Suart Shanker (2001) (3)
Individual Factors in Suicide Terrorims - "Fictive Kin" in Suicide Terrorism (2004) (2)
In Indonesia, Democracy Isn't Enough (2005) (2)
Constraints on a Theory of Hominid Tool-Making Behavior (1982) (2)
Effective Messaging on Social Media: What Makes Online Content Go Viral? (2022) (2)
The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion (2008) (2)
Mutually Assured Support: A Security Doctrine for Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Threats (2008) (2)
Simulating Combat to Explore Motivations Behind Why Military Members Make Costly Sacrifices (2020) (2)
Rendons au sens commun (1983) (2)
Taxonomic ranks, generic species, and core memes (1998) (2)
Foreword: Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers. (2009) (2)
Hamas May Give Peace a Chance (2004) (1)
Spiritual over physical formidability determines willingness to fight and sacrifice through loyalty in cross-cultural populations (2022) (1)
STRATEGIC BLUNDER: CONFOUNDING ROGUE STATES AND TERRORIST NETWORKS (2004) (1)
ISIS is a Revolution AEON December 15, 2015 (2015) (1)
Superior or inferior, human uniqueness is manifold (2019) (1)
The will to fight. (2021) (1)
Talking to the Enemy: An Alternative Approach to Ending Intractable Conflicts (2012) (1)
An Edge Discussion of BEYOND BELIEF: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival Salk Institue, La Jolla November 5-7, 2006 (S. Atran, N. Humphrey, S. Harris, D. Dennett, C. Porco, N. Chomsky) (2006) (1)
The Value(s) of IRBs (2011) (1)
Strong versus Weak Adaptationism in Cognition and Language (2002) (1)
God's Creation (2005) (1)
A Cognitive Theory of Culture (2003) (1)
Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals (2022) (1)
Natural classification (1981) (1)
● A New Phase for Jihad in Egypt? ● Nuristan: Insurgent Hideout in Afghanistan ● The Islamist Movement in Morocco ● The 'Virtual Hand' of Jihad (2005) (1)
The Bio-Itza (1993) (1)
The Mindless Agent (2005) (0)
Itza Maya Tropical AgroForestry ' by Scott Atran (2010) (0)
Facing Catastrophe - Risk and Response: The 9-11 and 11-M Commissions' Blind Sides (2005) (0)
The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict (2017) (0)
Waves of Passion (2005) (0)
Sacred values If the Middle East peace process is to be salvaged, Israelis and Palestinians must make symbolic concessions. But time is running out. (2006) (0)
The Science of the Sacred: Response to Professor Kamolnick (2010) (0)
Foreword (2009) (0)
TERROR NETWORKS AND SACRED VALUES Synopsis of report from Madrid – Morocco – Hamburg – Palestine – Israel – Syria Delivered to NSC staff, White House, Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 4 pm by Scott Atran, Robert Axelrod and Richard Davis (2007) (0)
The native mind (2008) (0)
SESSION 1 : ROOTS , PROFILES , AND CASE STUDIES OF OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM (2017) (0)
Identity fusion and Formidability (2015) (0)
Ritual and Revelation (2005) (0)
Bulletins (2007) (0)
Connecting the dots (2006) (0)
9. The Power of Moral Belief (2019) (0)
Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans DOn't Get It (2008) (0)
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Al Qaeda's Web: The Upgraded Networks of Global Terrorism (2004) (0)
From Folk Biology to Scientific Biology (2018) (0)
From mutualism to moral transcendence. (2013) (0)
Thick Interpretation in The Middle East (1982) (0)
What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence per se? (2019) (0)
Small Group Dynamics in the Evolution of Global Network Terrorism: A Comprehensive, People-Based Approach. Part A: Select Publications (2009) (0)
Reviews & Essays Sam Harris ’ s Guide to Nearly Everything By (2011) (0)
The Sense of Sacrifice (2005) (0)
Genesis of Suicide Terrorm (supporting online material) (2003) (0)
Culture Without Mind (2005) (0)
The Crisis of Cultures and the Vitality of Values: A Commentary on Emmanuel Macron’s Declaration of the Need for Religion (2019) (0)
Decision-Making and Valuation for Environmental Policy Progress (2002) (0)
Tuning Out Hell's Harpists (2004) (0)
Pourquoi la France attire Daech (2016) (0)
Pakistan: Balancing act (2006) (0)
Mutual Influence of Moral Values, Mental Models and Social Dynamics on Intergroup Conflict (2013) (0)
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution (2012) (0)
Sacred Bounds on Rational Conflict Resolution : The Middle East and Beyond (2006) (0)
Reginaldo Chayax Huex (1939-2020) (2020) (0)
Modeling Cultural Factors in Collaboration and Negotiation (2014) (0)
The Moral Measure of a Civilization is in its Treatment of Enemies (2009) (0)
Balancing act (2006) (0)

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