Haq Hina, Shaheed Saad, Stephan Achim
Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2020 Feb 18;11:205. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00205. eCollection 2020.
Affective bonding to radical organizations is one of the most prominent features of a recruit's personality. To better understand how affective bonding is established during the recruitment of youth for radicalization and how it is maintained afterward, it seems promising to adopt new insights and developments from the field of situated cognition and affectivity, particularly the concepts of Affective Scaffolding, Mind Invasion, and Self-Stimulatory Loops of Affectivity (SSLA). The three notions highlight both the intended structuring of the affective bonding by the recruiting organizations and the immersive influence these settings have on the individuals. We will study the affective bonding between an individual and a radical group from two perspectives: first, from an organizational perspective, and second from a personal perspective. The first aims at understanding how extremist organizations "invade the mind" of young people, by providing carefully designed affective scaffolding: (a) during the recruitment process and (b) while being a full member of the organization. The second aims at identifying some of the affective loops which individuals who have joined the radical organization enter.
与激进组织建立情感纽带是招募对象人格中最显著的特征之一。为了更好地理解在招募年轻人使其激进化的过程中情感纽带是如何形成的，以及之后又是如何维持的，借鉴情境认知与情感领域的新见解和新进展似乎很有前景，特别是情感支架、思维入侵和情感自我刺激循环（SSLA）等概念。这三个概念既突出了招募组织对情感纽带的有意构建，也强调了这些环境对个人的沉浸式影响。我们将从两个角度研究个人与激进组织之间的情感纽带：第一，从组织角度；第二，从个人角度。第一个角度旨在了解极端组织如何通过提供精心设计的情感支架“入侵年轻人的思维”：（a）在招募过程中以及（b）成为组织正式成员期间。第二个角度旨在识别加入激进组织的个人所进入的一些情感循环。
