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December 15, 2012

What Science Says About 'Rampage Violence'

Dan Nosowitz, Pop Science


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It's only been about a decade since psychological research has begun looking at what's increasingly being called "rampage violence," of the type that led to this morning's elementary school shooting in Connecticut as well as this year's shooting in Aurora, CO, and so many more.

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TAGGED: psychology, violence, mass murder

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