What is the Justified Death Attitude? Explicit V.S Implicit evaluation of Justified Death Attitude scale with Victim and Assailant’s attention

Abstract

Background: “JD is imminent and likely paradoxical reactions against self perceived threat to keep of self in modification for elimination of the opponent mentally or physically”. Assailants’ attention is "a data directive system with quantifying less hot cognition and the least of data collections in the fight-or-flight response”; victims’ attention "a data directive system with quantifying more hot cognition and the most data collections in the fight-or-flight response”. We compare explicit and implicit evaluations of the JDAS.

Method: We selected 1089 participants for neutral facial patterns normalization, normal finds participants, and neuropsychological doing tasks with quota, convenience, and Poisson samplings, respectively. Samples are collected in three Iran’s provinces. 100 subjects participated with an analogue method to normalize 400 neutral pictures in likeness of Iranians and attractiveness of faces. 989 subjects carried out Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI II) to find normal participants for the third step. 100 subjects did tasks to compare and evaluate JDAS agents.

Results: Participants evaluated 400 pictures to determine 120 attractiveness of faces and likeness of Iranian pictures using an analogue method. The results showed:

In explicit assessments, only "I" sense of self showed significant differences among general participants, though it was less severe.

General implicit assessments indicated significant differences among the senses of self related to nationality, denomination, and "I," respectively.

Guilty implicit assessments revealed significant differences among three senses of self: nationality, denomination, and "I," respectively.

Both explicit and implicit assessments of the JDAS for victim and assailant agents showed significant differences.

Conclusions: Threatening information against self agents strengthens endangered parts of the self. Normal criminals exhibit less empathy towards victims. Denomination, nationality, and "I" self agents are found to be independent self agents. It highlights the complexity of self-identity, revealing socially, and roles of social and cognitive factors in shaping attitudes towards JD.