Suicide bombing and information processing deficit

Newman has a challenging alternate explanation for psychopathy, one which seems better able to model functional psychopaths.

The dominant scientific model asserts that psychopathic individuals are incapable of fear or other emotions, which in turn makes them indifferent to other people's feelings.
But Newman has a different idea entirely. He believes that psychopathy is essentially a type of learning disability or "informational processing deficit" that makes individuals oblivious to the implications of their actions when focused on tasks that promise instant reward. Being focused on a short-term goal, Newman suggests, makes psychopathic individuals incapable of detecting surrounding cues such as another person's discomfort or fear...
"People think (psychopaths) are just callous and without fear, but there is definitely something more going on," Newman says. "When emotions are their primary focus, we've seen that psychopathic individuals show a normal (emotional) response. But when focused on something else, they become insensitive to emotions entirely."

Given the example of the suicide bomber, it is quite plausible to posit that religious indoctrination, cultural priming, and social pressure could be applied to selectively induce an informational processing deficit, permitting a person to focus on the act of suicide bombing, becoming insensitive to other people's emotions and possibly their own. Idée fixe.