Passion Toward Environmentalism: Changing People’s Passion for a Cause Can Reduce Violent Extremism.

Passion is necessary to sustain high involvement toward an environmental cause (Vallerand, 2003; 2010). Distinguishing between harmonious and obsessive passion is critical to predict engagement in mainstream (vs. radical) forms of activism. Results indicated that harmonious passion predicted mainstream activism, whereas obsessive passion predicted radical activism (mediated by moral disengagement).