Scott Atran
Adjunct Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Research Professor, Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
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BIO
Research and teaching interests are centered in the following areas: Cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography and political economy; natural history of Lowland Maya, cognitive and commitment theories of religion, terrorism and foreign affairs.
- Scott Atran. 2019. The Crisis of Cultures and the Vitality of Values: A Commentary on Emmanuel Macron's Declaration of the Need for Religion. New England Journal of Public Policy 31(1):..
- Scott Atran. 2019. Superior or inferior, human uniqueness is manifold. Animal Sentience 3(23):..
- Atran, Scott, Pretus, Clara , Hamid, Nafees , Sheikh, Hammad , Gómez, Ángel , Ginges, Jeremy , Tobeña, Adolf , Davis, Richard , Vilarroya, Oscar . 2019. Ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal interactions underlie will to fight and die for a cause. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 14(6):569-577.
- Hamid, Nafees , Pretus, Clara , Scott Atran, Crockett, Molly J., Ginges, Jeremy , Sheikh, Hammad , Tobeña, Adolf , Carmona, Susanna , Gómez, Angel , Davis, Richard , Vilarroya, Oscar . 2019. Neuroimaging 'will to fight'; for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate. Royal Society Open Science 6(6):..
- Atran, Scott, Pretus, Clara , Hamid, Nafees , Sheikh, Hammad , Ginges, Jeremy , Tobeña, Adolf , Davis, Richard , Vilarroya, Oscar . 2018. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism. Frontiers in Psychology 9
- Atran, Scott, Axelrod, Robert , Davis, Richard , Fischhoff, Baruch . 2017. Challenges in researching terrorism from the field. Science 355(6323):352-354.
- Atran, Scott, Gómez, Ángel , López-Rodríguez, Lucía , Sheikh, Hammad , Ginges, Jeremy , Wilson, Lydia , Waziri, Hoshang , Vázquez, Alexandra , Davis, Richard . 2017. The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict. Nature Human Behaviour 1(9):673-679.
- Atran, Scott. 2016. The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures. Current Anthropology 57(S13):S192-S203.
- Atran, Scott, Sheikh, Hammad , Gómez, Ángel . 2016. Empirical Evidence for the Devoted Actor Model. Current Anthropology 57(S13):S204-S209.
- Atran, Scott, Ginges, Jeremy , Sheikh, Hammad , Argo, Nichole . 2016. Thinking from God's perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(2):316-319.