TY - BOOK AU - MERARI Ariel TI - Personality characteristics of 'self martyrs'/'suicide bombers' and organizers of suicide attacks PY - 2010/// KW - SUICIDE BOMBERS KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - TERRORISM N2 - Report of direct psychological examination of suicide or martyrdom terrorists based on clinical psychological interviews and tests of failed Palestinian suicide terrorists, a control group of non-suicide terrorists, and a group of suicide terror organizers. Found that would-be suicide bombers tended to have lower ego strength, to be more susceptible to influence, be impulsive or emotionally unstable, and more likely than the control group to show signs of depression ER -