Motivations of Terrorism

Friday, October 20, 2006
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
(Pacific)
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
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This event will be opened first by a talk on Terrorism and Motivation by Arie Kruglanski and then followed by a Roundtable conversation on Terrorism, Leadership and Motivation with Eva Meyersson Milgrom, SIEPR, Stanford University, Robert Powell, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, Paul Milgrom, Department of Economics, Stanford University

David Laitin, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, and Lee Ross, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.

Professor Kruglanski has been a pioneer in fields such as intrinsic motivation, open and close mindedness and goals and motivation. He is a frequent keynote speaker around the world, and a recipient of the Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Social Psychology, as well as the Humboldt Forschungspreis. Professor Kruglanski is a fellow of the American Psychology Association and the National Academy of Sciences. He is on the editorial boards of Psychological Review, New Review of Social Psychology and American Psychologist