One of the challenges facing counter-terrorism is to improve mechanisms and protocols to discriminate against persons who are likely to be prepared to commit acts of violence. In this context, attempts have been made in recent decades to gather diverse information on the psychological and social characteristics of activists and extremists. Today, however, we have overcome some of the downsizing views that considered radical mobilization and terrorist violence to be associated with psychological disorders, because we know that there is a wide variety of features that is connected with his phenomenon. Hence, it is difficult to defend one person's causal root or unique features in relation to violent extremism. To the extent that in recent years these perspectives have been gradually replaced by other approaches focusing on psychosocial processes that favor recruitment and extremism, as well as in studying the multifaceted factors that seem to modify violent drift. Therefore, with regard to risk assessment and intelligence analysis, it is more appropriate to move from a traditionally focused perspective on personal profiles to a more innovative perspective that focuses on processes and mechanisms, the psychological and social factors that lead to extremism and violent extremism (Ginges, Atran, Sachdeva and Douglas, 2011; Kruglanski et al., 2009, 2014; Moyano and Trujillo, 2013, 2014; Trujillo, 2009; Trujillo and Moyano, 2019a, b; Victorov, 2005).