Feb 12, 2017
Violent extremists are not psychopathic
Decades of research has uncovered that terrorists are neither schizophrenic, depressed, anxious or psychopathic, but simply experiencing a mental motivational imbalance, it was revealed on day one of the World Government Summit 2017 in Dubai.
Professor Arie Kruglanski, Distinguished Professor of Psychology from the University of Maryland said extremism, whether geared towards the far right or left, is a wilful deviation from general norms of conduct, driven by a motivational imbalance, where everything performed because of that motivation becomes permissible.