Dimitrovska, Aleksandra and Dojcinovski, Metodija (2015) The personality profile of terrorist leaders: theoretical aspects and ways of measuring. Reserching security: Approaches, Concepts and Policies, 5.
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Abstract
The main task of the psychology of terrorism is to explain the
psychological aspects of terrorism, trying to provide answers about the
behavior of the persons involved in terrorist activities. The literature suggests
that there is no a single theory that explains the reasons and the way of "making
the terrorists." While the first generation of research have viewed on terrorism
as a pathology, explaining it predominantly through mental illness and
psychopathic personality, the second generation is based on a behavioral
approach that sets operationalization as a precondition for existing of scientific
research. It achieved agreement for the inability of separation of the
psychological factors from the others, especially the social, in an attempt to
explain this phenomenon. It is not found a single psychological profile of
terrorist, but what unites this sample is the existence of vulnerability for
terrorism and particular ideology. However, the deepest in this phenomenon
is the word "psychology", which unfortunately still remains undiscovered.
Even more complicated is the attempt to describe those who are ahead to be
chosen to lead this psychology.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Other social sciences |
| Divisions: | Military Academy |
| Depositing User: | Metodija Dojcinovski |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2018 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2018 11:38 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/19545 |
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