Militant Extremist Mind-Set: Proviolence, Vile World, and Divine Power

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-86

  Stankov, Lazar ^a   Saucier, Gerard ^b   Knežević, Goran ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Militant mind set; Proviolence; Social attitudes; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CITIZENSHIP; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVINE POWER SCALE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MILITANT EXTREMIST MIND SET; PERSONALITY TEST; PROVIOLENCE SCALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VILE WORLD SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950263755     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016925     Document Type: Article

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