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Behavioral and brain sciences

Journal Volume: 37
Journal Issue: 4
Journal Year: 2014
Articles in SafetyLit: 22

A science of intentional change and the prospects for a culture of peace

Author's response: evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal: challenges and empirical predictions

Can self-destructive killers be classified so easily?

Cognitive simplicity and self-deception are crucial in martyrdom and suicide terrorism

Conservation combats exploitation: choices within an evolutionary framework

Evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal: Challenges and empirical predictions

How many suicide terrorists are suicidal?

Individual differences in relational motives interact with the political context to produce terrorism and terrorism-support

Inferring cognition from action: Does martyrdom imply its motive?

Martyrdom redefined: Self-destructive killers and vulnerable narcissism

Organizational structures and practices are better predictors of suicide terror threats than individual psychological dispositions

Suicidal protests: self-immolation, hunger strikes, or suicide bombing

Suicide terrorism and post-mortem benefits

Suicide terrorism, moral relativism, and the situationist narrative

The importance of cultural variables for explaining suicide terrorism

The morality of martyrdom and the stigma of suicide

The myth of martyrdom: what really drives suicide bombers, rampage shooters, and other self-destructive killers

The myth of the myth of martyrdom

The over-determination of selflessness in villains and heroes

The rationality of suicide bombers: there is a little bit of crazy in all of us

Weighing dispositional and situational factors in accounting for suicide terrorism

Winning counterterrorism's version of Pascal's wager, but struggling to open the purse