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A quest for significance gone horribly wrong – how mass shooters pervert a universal desire to make a difference in the world

  • Written by Arie Kruglanski, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
imageA memorial to the victims of the mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Agonizing questions are being raised by the recent tragic shooting incident in Buffalo, New York, where 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron is alleged to have shot 10 people dead and wounded three. As in the recent...

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