Genesis of Suicide Terrorism

By Scott Atran. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “For instance, work carried out in diverse contexts of terrorism has failed to discern a relationship between terrorism and poverty at either the individual or aggregate level (Krueger & Maleckova, 2002; Atran, 2003; Stern, 2003).”
From Profiles to Pathways and Roots to Routes: Perspectives from Psychology on Radicalization into Terrorism (2008, background): “Atran (2003) illustrated that Palestinians regularly “invoke religion to invest personal trauma with proactive social meaning,” with injury seen not as burden but as a badge of honor.”
The staircase to terrorism: a psychological exploration. (2005, background): “As Rushdie (2002) and others (e.g., Atran, 2003, p. 1538) have noted, anti-Americanism is serving to deflect criticism from governments in the Middle East, even though without U.S. support, a number of such governments would probably collapse.”
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2009, background): “Anthropologists have considered suicide bombing as a costly signal of group commitment ( Atran, 2003; Sosis & Alcorta, in press), which it may be. However, this approach fails to explain the impact of these costly actions on learners' beliefs.”
Fully Committed: Suicide Bombers' Motivation and the Quest for Personal Significance (2009, background): “The emphasis on the experience of relative deprivation and its pertinence to terrorism casts an important light on the findings that poverty, poor education, or political oppression as defined by some absolute standards may not appear to constitute root causes of terrorism (Atran, 2003; Berrebi, 200”
Is Empathy Necessary for Morality (2011, background): “Atran (2003) argues that suicide bombers are bonding by a “fictive” sense of kinship, which allows them to lay down their lives for a group.”
A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments (2006, background): “His results are often cited today, for example, recently in helping to explain how people become embroiled in organised prisoner abuse [3] and even suicide bombings [4].”
The Bright Side of Being Prosocial at Work, and the Dark Side, Too: A Review and Agenda for Research on Other-Oriented Motives, Behavior, and Impact in Organizations (2016, background): “…have observed Amway employees arguing they are promoting world peace (Pratt, 2000), suicide bombers claiming they are acting for the common good (Atran, 2003), prostitutes describing their services as therapeutic (Ashforth & Kreiner, 1999), and prosecuting attorneys insisting that they have…”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “While this literature helpfully exposes how ordinary individuals can become violent extremists (Atran, 2003), it focuses primarily on identifying individual differences that predict which group members go to the greatest extremes, rather than identifying more general processes of mass participation…”
The Mind of the Terrorist (2005, background): “Bandura's (1973, 1998) Atran 2003).”
What Happened to Suicide Bombings in Israel? Insights from a Terror Stock Model (2005, methodology): “Suicide bombings have emerged as a major method favored by terrorist organizations in recent years (Atran, 2003; Pape, 2003).”
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “Formal cultural evolutionary425 models show that costly displays (e.g., ritual sacrifice) can interlock with and sustain counterintuitive beliefs, which would not be otherwise sustained by cultural evolution.”
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, background): “Even though, for example, the strategic goals of terrorism usually have little to do with religion per se (Kruglanski & Fishman, 2006; Pape, 2005), and even though terrorists typically are no more religiously devout than are nonterrorists (Atran, 2003), using religion to sanctify terrorism should be”