Addressing social isolation may be key in preventing mass shootings, study finds
The shooter crisis network. Nodes represent cross-sectional variables. Edge width and depth of color reflects the associative strength between any pair of nodes. Credit: PsyArXiv (2022). DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/63xyt
An analysis of the psychological crises exhibited by 177 mass shooters has identified social isolation as the most important external indicator leading up to the attacks. The finding, which is based on research…