Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Premature Dismissal of the Religious-Belief Hypothesis
We comment on work by Ginges, Hansen, and Norenzayan (2009) , in which they compare two hypotheses for predicting individual support for suicide terrorism: the religious-belief hypothesis and the coalitional-commitment hypothesis. Although we appreciate the evidence provided in support of the coalit...
Main Authors: | James R. Liddle, Karin Machluf, Todd K. Shackelford |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-07-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800302 |
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