title: Suicide terrorism, moral relativism, and the situationist narrative.
abstract: Lankford challenges two popular views of suicide terrorists: first, that they are psychologically normal and, second, that they are heroic, not unlike professional soldiers. I augment Lankford's critique by tracing these views to a simplistic situationist narrative and to a careless form of moral relativism to which many scholars adhere. Conceptual weaknesses of these positions are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Socio-Cognitive Systems Section, Defence Research and Development Canada and Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario,M3K 2C9, Canada. drmandel66@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/themandelian/
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Mandel
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*