Killing for the Sake of Infamy: The Herostratos Syndrome and What to Do about it

Fiche du document

Auteurs
Date

16 novembre 2016

Type de document
Périmètre
Langue
Identifiants
Source

HAL-SHS : économie et finance

Relations

Ce document est lié à :
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1515/peps-2016-0022

Collection

Archives ouvertes

Organisation

Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

Mots-clés En

Herostratos syndrome Mass killing Terrorism

Sujets proches En

Terrorist attacks Global terrorism World terrorism International terrorism Attacks, Terrorist Acts of terrorism Political terrorism Terrorist acts Terror attacks Chʻŏngju Sake Rice wine

Citer ce document

Jean-Paul Azam et al., « Killing for the Sake of Infamy: The Herostratos Syndrome and What to Do about it », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1515/peps-2016-0022

Métriques

Partage / Export

Résumé En

The Herostratos syndrome affects some people who perpetrate odious attacks for the sake of infamy. We suggest that this sheds some useful light to explain the wave of mass killing going on in Europe and North America, including school shootings and Jihadist terrorism, within a game-theoretic framework. The analysis points out that policies aimed at countering this type of violence should focus on trivializing these attacks and reducing the publicity that they get in the media.

document thumbnail

Par les mêmes auteurs

Sur les mêmes sujets

Exporter en