Who Joins the Islamic State and Why

What do "Jihadi John" and three men arrested in the United States this week have in common? Other than their alleged interest or participation in the Islamic State group, psychologists say perhaps not much. "There is never, ever one single factor that explains why people go," said John Hogran, a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell who studies the psychology behind terror movements and the people who join them. "It's religion, it's...

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