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Normative seeds for deadly martyrdoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Adolf Tobeña  and
Oscar Vilarroya
Adolf Tobeña
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Spain.adolf.tobena@uab.es
Oscar Vilarroya
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Spain.adolf.tobena@uab.es Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Carrer Doctor Aiguader 88, 08005 Barcelona, Spain.oscar.vilarroya@uab.eshttp://dpsiquiatria.uab.cat/ca/
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Abstract

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.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 378 - 379
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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