Keywords
Persuasión
Manipulative Behavior
Psychology
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Abstract
This work analyzes two processes of psychological manipulation for indoctrination and violent radicalization of jihadist terrorists in Spain: coercive persuasion and psychological group abuse. This research is based on the trustworthy information used in findings of the Spanish “Audiencia Nacional” (the Spanish High Court charged with terrorist trials) about the affidavits NOVA Operation I, II, and III. This research facilitates a reliable analysis of the possible processes of psychological manipulation that could have been applied in the terrorist group. The psycho-social approach analyzes the individual-group interaction, group dynamics, the internalization processes of the violent extremist ideology, and the ideologist/leader role. Outcomes showed evidences of thoughtr eform applied on the members of this terrorist groupThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.