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Reputation

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High status; Prestige

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The families of suicide attackers might benefit reproductively from the increased reputation associated with having a family member celebrated as a martyr, suggesting a potential evolutionary motivation for suicide attack.

Introduction

Suicide terrorism might yield heightened family reputation and status within local communities, providing an avenue through which suicide terrorists might generate benefits to their genetic kin. Though this is an interesting hypothesis, there are currently no studies that measure the mating or reproductive outcomes of the kin of suicide terrorists as a function of increased reputation.

Theoretical Overview: Suicide Terrorism and Reputational Benefits to Kin

Research conducted in several Muslim nations indicates that identity based on collectivism as opposed to individualism is associated with greater support for terrorism (Kruglanski and Orehek 2011). The cultures of the Middle East and circum-Mediterranean...

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  1. Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA

    Kristen Syme

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada

    Doug P. VanderLaan

  2. Child, Youth and Family Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Doug P. VanderLaan

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Syme, K. (2018). Reputation. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_601-1

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