Friday, January 14, 2011

Secret Service Study Probes Psyche of U.S. Assassins | Wired Science | Wired.com

Secret Service Study Probes Psyche of U.S. Assassins | Wired Science | Wired.com:

"Contrary to popular assumptions about public killings, the attackers didn’t conform to any particular demographic profile. But when Fein reconstructed their patterns of thinking, he was able to distill them into a handful of recurring motives for killing a public person — motives that seemed consistent regardless of whether a given individual was delusional or not (and three quarters of those who pulled the trigger were not)."

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