Abstract
This research is based on "cognitive science" and in the framework of "social cognition" to study the formation and causal explanations of terrorists and terrorist groups, especially the most important that is ISIS. from this perspective Social cognition based on interaction of individual with the environment ...
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This research is based on "cognitive science" and in the framework of "social cognition" to study the formation and causal explanations of terrorists and terrorist groups, especially the most important that is ISIS. from this perspective Social cognition based on interaction of individual with the environment subjects such as "the origin of knowledge", "cognitive style", "recognition patterns" and "cognitive capacity" to investigate the "language", "biological – Psycho origin", "Structure subjective" and "social culture", and the origins of the formation of knowledge of terrorists explains. In order to draw a mental model of the terrorists and the qualitative content analysis X-mind software is used . Extracted concepts and the mental model includes ideas (rather quoted on reason, law Al-tkfir, Salafism and past-oriented memory, Textualists mortis), metaphors (innovation, Shariah, jihad, caliphate and caliphs), living space (reproduced abnormality of family, a sense of relative deprivation), the origin of mental Bio (Splitting and thinking black - white, all or nothing, death-worship, malignant violence, domination instinct, delusions of grandeur and self-abuse, antisocial personality), group (sense of belonging and dummy relative risk as the pressure obedience and success), identity crisis (conflict and cultural interference, hegemony of the West and Arab humiliation, restore Islamic glory).
