Citation

Mandel DR. Behav. Brain Sci. 2014; 37(4): 373.

Affiliation

Socio-Cognitive Systems Section,Defence Research and Development Canada and Department of Psychology,York University,Toronto,Ontario,M3K 2C9,Canada.drmandel66@gmail.comhttps://sites.google.com/site/themandelian/

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X13003440

PMID

25162851

Abstract

Lankford challenges two popular views of suicide terrorists: first, that they are psychologically normal and, second, that they are heroic, not unlike professional soldiers. I augment Lankford's critique by tracing these views to a simplistic situationist narrative and to a careless form of moral relativism to which many scholars adhere. Conceptual weaknesses of these positions are briefly discussed.

Language: en