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Extremism and Violence on the BrainBy Hidden Brain, Nafees Hamid, Shankar Vedantam

In a Nutshell

This July 2024 episode of the Hidden Brain podcast explores the research of cognitive scientist Nafees Hamid, who studies extremism and its impact on the brain.

Favorite Quote

As soon as those pathways for purpose and meaning and, really, inclusion in terms of his life and his dreams … opened back up to him again, he dropped his flirtation with radicalization and went off and pursued his ambitions.

Nafees Hamid

Introduction

Extremism is on the rise worldwide, but what can we do about it?

Nafees Hamid is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on how extremism affects the brain.

Hamid discovered that significant parts of the brain are activated or deactivated when extremist views are discussed and that there are ways to bring people back from radicalization.

Hosted by science journalist Shankar Vedantam, the Hidden Brain podcast explores how our minds respond to diverse situations.

On this July 2024 episode, Vedantam talks to Hamid about his career, the concept of radicalization, and how the brain functions when someone has extremist beliefs.

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