Regional Representative for Southeast Asia (2025- current)
Professor at Faculty of Psychology Universitas Indonesia and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at Faculty of Psychology Universitas Indonesia (2025- 2029)
Email:
mirranoor@ui.ac.id
Education:
BA in Communication Studies (Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta)
MA in Psychology (Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta)
Doctorate in Psychology (Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta)
Introduction:
Professor Mirra Noor Milla is a professor social psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, with extensive research expertise in political extremism, terrorism, radicalism, intergroup conflict, and religious fundamentalism. She collaborates with the National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT) as a social psychologist, contributing to intervention programs for terrorist detainees at the Center for Deradicalization. Currently, she serves as the President of the Indonesian Association of Social Psychology (2019–2027) and sits on the Governing Council of the International Society of Political Psychology (2023–2025). She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Psychology of Violence, APA (2024–2025), editor in Journal of Political Psychology (2025-now).
Research Interests: political extremism, terrorism, radicalization and deradicalization, intergroup conflict and religious fundamentalism.
Recent Publications:
Milla, M. N., Bélanger, J. J., Louis, W. R., Arifin, H. H., Sulaiman, U. H., Lamuri, A., & Firdiani, N. F. (2025). The 3N Model and collective support for extreme measures to combat COVID-19. PLOS ONE, 20(11 October). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335241
Milla M.N, & Yustisia, W. Religious Fundamentalism and Violent Extremism. In: Obaidi M, Kunst J, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Cambridge University Press; 2025:142-165. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-handbook-of-the-psychology-of-violent-extremism/religious-fundamentalism-and-violent-extremism/7585FE5DD0F64D1406CE7C5878B9A643
Arifin, H. H., Milla, M. N., Mashuri, A., Knežević, G., & Takwin, B. (2025). The role of trait disintegration in the militant extremist mindset: The case of Indonesian extremists. Personality and Individual Differences, 246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113386
Arifin, H. H., Milla, M. N., Takwin, B., & Mashuri, A. (2025). Sin, divine forgiveness, and repentance: Disrupting the psychological path to extremism. Personality and Individual Differences, 247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113419
Webpage:
https://scholar.ui.ac.id/en/persons/mirra-noor-milla