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Citation

Bélanger JJ, Caouette J, Sharvit K, Dugas M. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 2014; 107(3): 494-515.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0036855

PMID

25133728

Abstract

Martyrdom is defined as the psychological readiness to suffer and sacrifice one's life for a cause. An integrative set of 8 studies investigated the concept of martyrdom by creating a new tool to quantitatively assess individuals' propensity toward self-sacrifice. Studies 1A-1C consisted of psychometric work attesting to the scale's unidimensionality, internal consistency, and temporal stability while examining its nomological network. Studies 2A-2B focused on the scale's predictive validity, especially as it relates to extreme behaviors and suicidal terrorism. Studies 3-5 focused on the influence of self-sacrifice on automatic decision making, costly and altruistic behaviors, and morality judgments.

RESULTS involving more than 2,900 participants from different populations, including a terrorist sample, supported the proposed conceptualization of martyrdom and demonstrated its importance for a vast repertoire of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral phenomena. Implications and future directions for the psychology of terrorism are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).


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