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Ep 40. Survey shows 20% of Americans experienced a mass shooting
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Ep 40. Survey shows 20% of Americans experienced a mass shooting

Dr. Peterson and Dr. Densley explain their new paper in Nature: Mental health consequences of exposure to mass and non-mass shootings in a national sample of US adults

Paper: Mental health consequences of exposure to mass and non-mass shootings in a national sample of US adults (Nature)

Guests: Dr. Jillian Peterson, forensic psychologist, professor at Hamline University, and executive director of The Violence Prevention Project Research Center and Dr. James Densley, criminal justice department chair at Metropolitan State University and co-founder of The Violence Prevention Project.

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.


David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.

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