# William McGuire **Entity class:** Social psychologist **Maturity:** Historical ## Definition **William J. McGuire** developed the foundational inoculation theory of resistance to persuasion in the 1960s. ## Relationships - **developed:** [[wiki/Inoculation Theory|Inoculation Theory]]. - **modern application:** [[wiki/Prebunking|Prebunking]] and [[wiki/Countering Violent Extremism|CVE]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]