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To: Neeka who wrote (128160)	7/28/2005 4:41:21 PM
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Even more scary high scores on psychopathic deviant, paranoid, schizophrenia, depressive, hypmania scales MMPI-2 and Pathological Hatred Test Results unlv.edu Comparisons between terrorists and control group subjects' MMPI-2 tests (see appendix #3) suggest at least six important findings. First, regardless of their gender, political, religious, or ethnic affiliation, terrorists have significantly higher scores on MMPI-2 subscales measuring psychopathic deviate (Scale 4), paranoid Scale 6), depressive (Scale 2) and hypomanic (Scale 9) tendencies. Second, regardless of their faith, terrorists belonging to fundamentalist groups are also more likely to obtain high scores on the schizophrenic scale (Scale 8). Third, comparisons between terrorists of different ethnic groups suggest higher levels of psychopathology among Israeli Jews (32.7%) than among Palestinians (31.1%). Fourth, comparisons of significant subscales among terrorists who belong to various ethnic groups suggest that schizophrenic tendencies (Scale 8) constitute one of the two highest clinical scales among 56% of Israeli Jews, and one of the three highest among them. Fifth, psychopathic deviate tendencies (Scale 4) constitute the highest clinical scale among 29% of Palestinian terrorists, and one among the three highest clinical scales among 40% of them. Sixth, finally, comparisons of terrorists claiming different types of ideological orientation (revolutionary, secular, fundamentalist) reveal important schizophrenic tendencies (Scale 8) among fundamentalists. Scores on the schizophrenic scale are significantly elevated beyond the significant pathological level among 47.7% of them and moderately elevated among 58%. Comparisons between terrorists and control group subjects' tests measuring “pathological hatred” suggest at least three important findings: First, the individual's clinical profile matches his/her terrorist group profile, Second, the individual's clinical profile is more similar to the general terrorist profile than to the global profile characteristic of his/her own ethnically-similar control group. Third, Palestinian and Israeli fundamentalist terrorists are more similar to each other on “pathological hatred” measures and MMPI-2 clinical profiles than when compared to any other collective configuration. Thus, regardless of their political, religious, or ethnic affiliation, terrorists are similar to each other and differ from their respective control groups on 19 “pathological hatred” subscales. In both these scales, therefore, we find that terrorist scores systematically point both to the maladaptive pole of the MMPI-2 scale and to the extreme pole of the “pathological hatred” scale. To us, these results suggest a terrorist psychosocial profile, syndrome or personality which seems to transcend gender, political affiliation, ethnicity, and, among the fundamentalists, faith