Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, where he served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science (2016–21). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (2014–21). His extensive publications include about thirty books and 300 papers, and he has won a number of prestigious academic awards.

• Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A psychological perspective on the puzzle of revolution; Part I. Getting to Revolutionary Collective Action; 2. Psychological theories and revolution: Material factors as drivers; 3. Psychological theories and revolution: Subjective factors as drivers; Part II. Regime Change; 4. The tipping-point in regime collapse: Power and authority in transition; 5. Psychological processes underlying revolutionary regime change; 6. Psychological stepping stones to revolution; Part III. What Happens After Regime Change; 7. Behavioral continuity and attempts at perpetual revolution; 8. Cultural carriers and the failure of revolutionaries to shape behavior; 9. The role of personality in revolutions; Part IV. Reevaluating Revolutions; 10. The Illusion-Motivation Model of Revolution; 11. Does human nature doom revolutions?; Afterword: Revolutions as acts of collective creativity; References; Index.