Fully Committed: Suicide Bombers' Motivation and the Quest for Personal Significance
By Arie W. Kruglanski, Xiaoyan Chen, Mark Dechesne, Steve Fishman, Edward Orehek. 2009
412 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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In Clinical Psychology
In Social Psychology
- Katarzyna Jaśko
- Gary LaFree
- Steve Fishman
- Michele J. Gelfand
- Arie W. Kruglanski
- John T. Jost
- Antonio Chirumbolo
- Henk Aarts
In Sociology and Political Science
- Arie W. Kruglanski
- Steve Fishman
- Katarzyna Jaśko
- Gary LaFree
- Michele J. Gelfand
- John T. Jost
- J. Becker
- Nicole Tausch
Citations in the corpus
- Quest for significance and violent extremism : the case of domestic radicalization (2017, background): “According to the significance quest theory (Kruglanski et al., 2009, 2013, 2014), the need for personal significance makes the occurrence of extreme behavior more likely.”
- The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism (2014, background): “The quest for significance is the fundamental desire to matter, to be someone, to have respect (Kruglanski et al., 2009; Kruglanski et al., 2013).”
- Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “For instance, if as we have argued, acts of suicidal terrorism are motivated by the quest for significance (attainment of martyrdom status) (Kruglanski et al., 2009a,b) then deterrence could be effectuated by persuading the potential perpetrators that an act of suicidal terrorism is antithetical to…”