Arie Kruglanski

Distinguished University Professor in Psychology at the University of Maryland

Arie W. Kruglanski is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He received the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, the University of Maryland Regents Award for Scholarship and Creativity and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He was editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and was AE of the American Psychologist. He has also served as President of the Society for the Study of Motivation. His published over 400 articles, chapters and books on motivated social cognition, served on NAS panels on the social and behavioral aspects of terrorism and co-founded the National Center of Excellence for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to ‘Terrorism. He was the PI on a MINERVA grant from the Office of Naval Research on the determinants of radicalization, and is presently the PI on a MINERVA grant on Syrian refugees’ potential for radicalization.