Science Newslink: Why Do People Die Fighting For A Cause? 🔬

To beat your enemies, you must understand them intimately. And so anthropologist Scott Atran and his colleagues have spent the last 2 years interviewing Islamic State group fighters and their opponents on the front lines. For a study published yesterday in Nature Human Behavior, Atran, director of research at Artis International, a research institute based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and his research team personally talked with extremists in the field, whom they’d reached through local leaders.

Full article in Science AAAS: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/why-do-people-die-fighting-cause