The toll from gun violence in American K-12 schools has escalated over the past 20 years. School administrators face pressure to prepare for possible active shootings, and often do so through drills, which can range from general lockdowns to simulations,
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Incidents of bullying behavior in schools have increased significantly and are of special concern due to the numerous school shootings that have occurred in the past decade. This article provides background information on the prevalence of bullying and describes the effects of bullying on both victim...
However, they note that attempting to “profile” school shooters with such a constellation of traits will likely result in many false positives as many individuals with such a profile do not engage in violent behaviors. The desire to seek revenge for a long history of being bullied at school....
5. Selective Use of Violence for Propagandists EffectsIt is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, mesta judges, police and State Security officials, CDS chiefs, etc. For psychological purposes it is necessary to gather together the population affected, ...
Psychologists have discussed the role of attributional ambiguity and its effects on targets experiencing microaggressions (Sue et al.,2009a). Attributional ambiguity describes situations in which members of marginalized groups find it difficult to determine whether interactions, both positive and negative,...
Summary measures and synthesis of results All analyses were performed in RStudio using themetapackage [60]. Random-effects meta-analysis models were created to pool effect sizes for each psychotherapy's effectiveness and acceptability, and the results were graphed using Forest plots. The specific met...
This article summarizes the efforts of the American Psychological Association's Public Policy Office on violence in the media in the late 1990s. By looking at the range of dynamics at play (school shootings blamed on popular music, rapidly evolving technology, a Presidential Campaign), this ...
Currently, it is presumed that exposure to information can be controlled by controlling the frequency and the content of the information seeking behaviors, and the negative effects on psychological well-being might be reduced during exposure control. However, each new crisis has its own unique charac...