@article{ref1,
title="The psychology of martyrdom: making the ultimate sacrifice in the name of a cause",
journal="Journal of personality and social psychology",
year="2014",
author="Bélanger, Jocelyn J. and Caouette, Julie and Sharvit, Keren and Dugas, Michelle",
volume="107",
number="3",
pages="494-515",
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. <br><br>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).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3514",
doi="10.1037/a0036855",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036855"
}