@article{ref1,
title="Fully Committed: Suicide Bombers' Motivation and the Quest for Personal Significance",
journal="Political psychology",
year="2009",
author="Kruglanski, Arie W. and Chen, Xiaoyan and Dechesne, Mark and Fishman, Shira and Orehek, Edward",
volume="30",
number="3",
pages="331-357",
abstract="<p>A motivational analysis of suicidal terrorism is outlined, anchored in the notion of <i>significance quest</i>. It is suggested that heterogeneous factors identified as <i>personal causes</i> of suicidal terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion), the various <i>ideological reasons</i> assumed to justify it (e.g. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one's nation or religion), and the <i>social pressures</i> brought upon candidates for suicidal terrorism may be profitably subsumed within an integrative framework that explains diverse instances of suicidal terrorism as attempts at <i>significance restoration</i>, <i>significance gain</i>, and <i>prevention</i> of <i>significance loss</i>. Research and policy implications of the present analysis are considered.</p><p />",
language="",
issn="0162-895X",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00698.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00698.x"
}