Can you change a terrorist's mind?
Terrorism and targeted violence are complex problems that require complex thinking across a host of domains. Take the work of a pair of NCITE researchers from Penn State — Sam Hunter, a psychologist, and Scarlett Miller, an engineer. The two come from completely different fields but have teamed up to test this contention: that violent thinking can be interrupted, limited, and essentially reengineered. The two have worked together in the past 10 years on projects aiming to boost creativity and remove the kind of “writer’s block” that prevents people from thinking more broadly around an...
Source: unomaha.edu
