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R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D.

Author of Why We Snap

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A Gunman’s Regret

November 4, 2018 by R. Douglas Fields Leave a Comment

Science can help society grapple with the horrors of modern gun violence

…A death row inmate wrote to say that something I had written had helped him understand how his life derailed. If he had read this material on the neuroscience of violence earlier in his life, he wrote, “I might not be here today.”

 

I gave a gift to a man who is about to be killed. He agrees that he should be killed, because he murdered innocent people, but he regrets. Regret wells in the wake of senseless violence rocking American society today. That emotion permeates this dark period of horrific mass shootings and daily violence, and it reveals a path to prevention.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: aggression, gun violence, mass shooting, rage, school shooting, synagogue shooting, violence

The Neuroscience of Violence, Again

July 12, 2016 by R. Douglas Fields Leave a Comment

The first dead person I ever saw was a policeman. . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: aggression, Baton Rouge shooting, Carderock murder, Columbine shooting, Dallas shooter, Falcon Heights shooting, fear, gun laws, gun violence, mass shooting, Orlando shooting, police shooting, suicide, Virginia Tech shooting

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