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Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is an author who has specialized in the study of the psychology of killing.
Col. Grossman retired from the military as Professor of Military Science at Arkansas State University. His career includes service in the US Army as a sergeant in the US 82nd Airborne Division, a platoon leader in the 9th (High Tech Test Bed) Division, a general staff officer, a company commander in the 7th (Light) Infantry Division as well as a parachute infantryman, a US Army Ranger and a teacher of psychology at West Point. Arkansas State University student union, Jonesboro, Arkansas Arkansas State University (A-State) or (ASU) is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the states second largest college system. ...
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Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, spirit, soul; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is both an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ...
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Col. Grossman's first book, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is an analysis of the physiological processes involved with killing another human being. In it, he reveals evidence that most people have a phobic-level response to violence, and that soldiers need to be specifically trained to kill. In addition, he details the physical effects that violent stresses produce on humans, ranging from tunnel vision, changes in sonic perception, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Controversially, Col. Grossman argues that that the techniques used by armies to train soldiers to kill are mirrored in certain types of video game. The conclusion he draws is that playing violent video games, particularly first-person shooters, train children in the use of weapons and, more importantly, harden them emotionally to the task of murder by simulating the killing of hundreds or thousands of opponents in a single typical video game. “Computer and video games†redirects here. ...
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His second book, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace, is an extension of the first, intended to provide coping strategies for dealing with the physiological and psychological effects of violence for people forced to kill in their line of work (soldiers and police officers).
While his work on violence and killing has been very well received, the extension of his work into the potential negative side-effects of video games has proven much more controversial. Col. Grossman uses blunt language that draws the ire of gamers - during the heights of video game controversy, he was interviewed on the content of his books, and repeatedly used the term "murder simulator" to describe first-person shooter games. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Maze War, one of the two candidates for the first FPS. This article is about the video game genre. ...
Since his retirement from the Army, Col. Grossman has founded the Killology Research Group and continues to educate law enforcement officers and soldiers in the techniques he has studied for improving outcomes in lethal encounters. He also speaks at civilian events on ways to reduce violence in society and deal with the aftermath of violent events such as school shootings. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
It may be also noted that Dave Grossman shares his name ironically with the famed game designer Dave Grossman of Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island and recently Sam and Max fame. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (DoTT) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1993, and published by LucasArts. ...
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Bibliography
Non-fiction - On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1995) (ISBN 0-316-33011-6), an analysis of the psychology of killing both in the military and in civilian society, which he calls killology.
- Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence (1999) (ISBN 0-609-60613-1)
- On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (2004) (ISBN 0-9649205-1-4), "a ground-breaking examination of what it takes to perform, cope and survive in the toxicity of deadly combat as a soldier in a foreign land and a police officer in the mean streets of urban America.".
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Fiction Leo Frankowski (born in Michigan) is an American writer of science fiction novels; he is now a resident of Russia, where he lives with his wife and adopted teenage daughter. ...
Leo Frankowski (born in Michigan) is an American writer of science fiction novels; he is now a resident of Russia, where he lives with his wife and adopted teenage daughter. ...
Leo Frankowski (born in Michigan) is an American writer of science fiction novels; he is now a resident of Russia, where he lives with his wife and adopted teenage daughter. ...
In fiction Grossman's alleged connection between video games and real-life violence has been satirized in the game Postal². In the game's fictional town of "Paradise", Grossman's Arcade is a two-story video-game arcade that contains classic-style arcade machines with some very violent titles, some supposedly made by Running With Scissors, Inc., the company that developed Postal 2. While the machines themselves are unusable to the player, one can opt to start a shootout inside the arcade against paying customers and even the clerk, who is also armed. Postal² is a 2003 computer game by Running With Scissors (RWS). ...
arcade, see Arcade. ...
RWS logo Running With Scissors, Inc. ...
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