Awe imprints ideology fast, enabling the rapid transmission of radical beliefs through awe, neuroscience, and imprinting.

Last spring, Meisa Salaita, cofounder of Science ATL, which organizes the Atlanta Science Festival, touched a human brain. “Each year during the festival, a brain is displayed,” she explains.

In humans, analogous brain regions mediate emotionally salient ... Case Studies: Awe and Radicalization Symbolic triggers and fixed action patterns Radicalization is often accompanied by sudden ...