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In the wake of three deadly terrorist attacks in as many months in the UK, scientists have upped the ante in the war against terror. <\/p>\n
A team from Boston University created a computer-simulated human mind which has the ability to see how the impacts of terror on behaviour pan out. <\/p>\n
The results found there is an increase of religious ritual behaviour after terror-inspiring events which drove people beyond a threshold of fear. <\/p>\n
When the results are placed under further scrutiny, they could help to explain why people commit atrocities in the name of God. <\/p>\n
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Wesley Wildman, a School of Theology professor of philosophy, theology, and ethics at Boston University and who was head of the research team which developed the simulation, said: This is a potential explanatory tool for understanding why people get radicalised, why religious violence is increasing, why were seeing culture wars about religion in our political discourse. <\/p>\n
He added: Youve got a big, complicated system in the real world; you try and approach it from the top, from sociology, you can only get so far. <\/p>\n
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You approach it from the bottom, from psychology and neuroscience; you can only get so far.How do you get to the actual system dynamics? <\/p>\n
The thing to do is to simulate the complicated social system in a computer so that you can slowly study it. <\/p>\n
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The computer was developed by Connor Woods, a postdoctoral fellow in religion studies, who was hoping to gain an insight into the ways in which religion affects human behaviour. <\/p>\n
The research was given a $2.4 million grant as they hope to figure outthe process of integration and refugee flow and the risks of religious extremist violence, according to Prof Wildman. <\/p>\n
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