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Researchers measured high- and low-adversity participants’ feelings of compassion.

Most of us can’t imagine wanting absolute control over a nation or feeling compelled to commit mass murders — so then what is it about a dictator’s psychology that makes them different?

With little progress on other avenues to preventing mass shootings, one firm has employed architecture to save students.

Is it time media outlets stop publishing the names and photographs of mass shooters?

When you combine feelings of resentment with the societal praise of leaving one’s mark, it forms a lethal cocktail.

Lovers deadlier than gangsters, first comprehensive Danish homicide study since 1970s shows

The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.

It’s not about what guns people have. It’s who has them.

We like to think of creativity as an inherently good thing. History and science say otherwise.

Gun safety laws have a historical precedent in the 1939 court case U.S. v Miller.

Warspeak has relentlessly crept into most aspects of American life and public discourse.

The claim comes after two mass shootings over the weekend that killed, in total, 31 people.

Studies on stress and memory have often given conflicting results.

Conservative journalist Andy Ngo was attacked during marches in Portland on June 29.

The “dangerous people” framework is a myth.

In cities, people tend to think of parks as dangerous.

#MeToo and #TimesUp catapult America into the club of world’s most anti-women countries.

You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.

A new paper suggests gun licensing laws could be curbing violence in two main ways.

Here’s how we can use the concept of “impact impression” for criminal reform.

If virtue is insufficient temptation, then the internet makes sure we are never lacking.

Notre Dame was almost torched in 1871, when Communards set Paris’ major buildings ablaze.

Riots may ensue as more poor Americans recognize their “miserable” long-term prospects.

Unlike much of the United States, the South has a culture of honor. While this makes Southerners more polite, it’s also something of a double-edged sword.

Being a successful caregiver is part of today’s definition of manhood.

In her new Netflix special, Amy Schumer gets real about fear.

Can 6,500 mercenaries “fix” Afghanistan? The U.S. is resurrecting privatized warfare.

Unfortunately, this means that drivers act more aggressively on the road when spotting cyclists.

On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.

They didn’t know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.