Normative seeds for deadly martyrdoms. Issue 4 (27th August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tobeña, Adolf; Vilarroya, Oscar
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 37:Issue 4(2014)
• Page Start: 378
• Page End: 379
• Publication Date: 2014-08-27
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003506
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Even if Lankford's biographical examination of perpetrators of suicidal attacks serves to alert us on the role played by individual factors in their recruitment, psychological frailties, distress, or coercion do not exhaust the causal pathways to deadly martyrdom. Normative personality attributes must be explored further in order to ascertain plausible roots of murderous sacrifice. We have advanced (Tobeña 2004b; 2009; 2011) a template of normative temperamental traits that could lead activists to the threshold of volunteering for murderous missions.</p> </abstract>