PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Anger Management, Malignant Narcissism, Trench Coat
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Gill/harris cited hitler as someone they looked up to and hitler cited the armenian genocide as his inspiration; this is who they identified with and saw as heroic. If we select a violent hero then it is more easily explained why we are violent. Newman et al: rampage: felt like an outcast in relevant groups. Shooters had fewer friends, those they do have are also outcasts. People who commit suicide are often friends with more influential people. This wasn"t his real name; he changed it because he didn"t want to be associated with his father. Father was jealous and abusive to his wife and marc. He wanted to be an engineer and saw that women engineers must be getting special favors in the school and he felt it was an injustice and they didn"t deserve this special treatment. When people isolate themselves they tend to go over the grievances in their life repeatedly-they ruminate.
