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Normative seeds for deadly martyrdoms.

Adolf Tobeña1, Oscar Vilarroya2

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Spain. adolf.tobena@uab.es

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|August 28, 2014
PubMed
Summary

Individual factors like psychological distress are insufficient to explain suicidal attacks. Further research into normative personality traits is needed to understand the roots of deadly martyrdom and volunteering for violent missions.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Criminology

Background:

  • Previous research, such as Lankford's, highlights individual factors in suicidal attacks.
  • Psychological frailties, distress, or coercion alone do not fully explain deadly martyrdom.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore normative personality attributes as potential causal pathways to deadly martyrdom.
  • To advance understanding beyond individual psychological factors in explaining violent sacrifice.

Main Methods:

  • Review and synthesis of existing literature on perpetrator motivations.
  • Theoretical framework development based on normative temperamental traits.

Main Results:

  • Individual factors are not the sole determinants of suicidal attacks.

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  • A template of normative temperamental traits is proposed as a contributing factor.

    • Conclusions:

    • Understanding deadly martyrdom requires examining normative personality traits.
    • Further research should investigate these traits to ascertain roots of violent self-sacrifice.