Research
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Latest papers
Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior.
Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2023 · senior author
The importance of environmental threats and ideology in explaining extreme self-sacrifice.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2018
Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: goal regulation theory and a personality × threat × affordance hypothesis.
Frontiers in psychology · 2015 · first author
Latest funding
- $249,354
Defusing religious extremism: motivational and neurophysiological mechanics
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior.
Leota J, Nash K, McGregor I
The importance of environmental threats and ideology in explaining extreme self-sacrifice.
Elnakouri A, McGregor I, Grossmann I
Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: goal regulation theory and a personality × threat × affordance hypothesis.
McGregor I, Hayes J, Prentice M
Religious Belief as Compensatory Control
Aaron C. Kay, Danielle Gaucher, Ian McGregor, Kyle A. Nash
Defusing religious extremism: motivational and neurophysiological mechanics
Principal investigators: McGregor, Ian D.
Keywords: goal regulation; uncertainty; conflict; values; identity; neurophysiology; deradicalization; violence; aggression; extremism; terrorism; religion; national security
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Kyle Nash and Ian McGregor: 2 shared papers
- Igor Grossmann and Ian McGregor: 1 shared paper
- Kyle Nash and Danielle Gaucher: 1 shared paper
- Danielle Gaucher and Ian McGregor: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychology
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