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Collective rituals spur support for suicide attacks: researchers

 

Acts of war by self-destruction seen as part of a larger psychological phenomenn

 

Feb. 19, 2009

Courtesy Association for

Psychological Science

and World Science staff

 

Re*li*gion plays a role in su*i*cide bomb*ings—but it’s col*lec*tive wor*ship, rath*er than lev*el of de*vo*tion, that fos*ters sup*port for such deeds, a new study con*cludes.

 

 

Collective rituals spur support for suicide attacks: researchers

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