Lone Wolf Terrorism Psychological Perspective

Psychological Perspectives of Lone Wolf Terrorism
The psychological perspective of lone wolf terrorism generates the characteristics of the terrorist, focusing on its demographic characteristics by understanding terrorists’ age, gender, social status, and education level. In the research statistic, the general characteristics of terrorists are mostly male, young people, high education background, good foreign language ability, and even high social status. Moreover, numbers of characteristics lead the lone wolf action can be enumerated in several dimensions such as a personal grievance and moral outrage; the framing of an ideology; failure to affiliate with an extremist group; dependence on a virtual community found on the Internet; the thwarting of occupational goals; radicalization fueled by changes in thinking process, emotion bonding and cognitive rigidity; clandestine excitement, contempt, and regardless of the particular ideology; the failure of sexual pair bonding and the violence of equalization; the nexus of psychopathology and ideology; greater creativity and innovation than terrorist groups; and predatory violence sanctioned by moral authority. These are all influential psychological indicators conduct individuals into lone wolf …show more content…
These terrorists are aware of the high risk of terrorist acts but do not care about death, because they believe that if they can sacrifice the lives of individuals in exchange for their pursuit of the ideals, hopes, and access to the world's attention. This mentality is known as the Phoenix Complex which is from the Egyptian mythology story of the phoenix bath fire and rebirth, which derived from the criminal psychology of proprietary noun. Personal life is not only insignificant, but the same as the Phoenix "death is still