Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists
基于对89名美国前白人至上主义者的深度访谈，研究发现脱离该身份后仍存在类似成瘾的认知、情感和生理残留效应，探讨了身份残留对理解人们如何离开极端群体的意义。
The process of leaving deeply meaningful and embodied identities can be experienced as a struggle against addiction, with continuing cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses that are involuntary, unwanted, and triggered by environmental factors. Using data derived from a unique set of in-depth life history interviews with 89 former U.S. white supremacists, as well as theories derived from recent advances in cognitive sociology, we examine how a rejected identity can persist despite a desire to change. Disengagement from white supremacy is characterized by substantial lingering effects that subjects describe as addiction. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of identity residual for understanding how people leave and for theories of the self.