![]() For instance, it was argued that this psychological diagnosis is often based on symptoms that are shared with other diagnoses ( 1). Such a screening procedure may identify candidates for (1) in-depth personal diagnosis and (2) preventive steps to be taken by mental health practitioners and law enforcement agencies.Ĭurrently, and for several reasons, there is no consistent diagnosis of school shooters. The profiling of school shooters should be informative in the sense that it can be used for future screening of potential offenders. In this context, forensic psychiatrists are often asked to profile the shooters to provide a better understanding of the causes of the atrocities. School shooters receive extensive media coverage and create social anxiety that is distinct from other forms of domestic violence. Using a ranking/prioritization procedure, similar to the one used for the automatic identification of sexual predators, we provide support for the validity and relevance of the proposed methodology. Comparing texts written by 6 school shooters to 6056 texts written by a comparison group of male subjects, we found that the shooters’ texts scored significantly higher on the Narcissistic Personality dimension as well as on the Humilated and Revengeful dimensions. The methodology involves automatic analysis of texts and the production of several measures relevant for the identification of the shooters. In this short paper, we introduce a new methodology for automatically profiling school shooters. The relatively small number of school shooters, their various characteristics, and the lack of in-depth analysis of all of the shooters prior to the shooting add complexity to our understanding of this problem. School shooters present a challenge to both forensic psychiatry and law enforcement agencies. 4Forensic Psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, USA.2Independent Researcher, Petakh-Tikva, Israel.1Homeland Security Institute and Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.Genetics: Research suggests that certain (still unknown) genes may affect a person's susceptibility to paranoia.Yair Neuman 1* Dan Assaf 2 Yochai Cohen 3 James L.Exposures to toxic substances: Certain steroids taken by athletes as well as some insecticides, fuel, and paint are also associated with paranoia.Effects of recreational drugs and alcohol: Some drugs may trigger paranoia, such as cocaine, cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy, LSD, and amphetamines.Lack of sleep: Lack of sleep can trigger feelings of insecurity and even unsettling feelings and hallucinations. ![]() Hearing loss can also trigger paranoid thoughts in some people. ![]() ![]()
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