Reading Time: 11 minutes If you’re outside a tribe that holds absurd beliefs, their absurdity is patently obvious. But from the inside, such beliefs are resistant to corrective information because they play an important social-psychological function.
Hector A. Garcia
Dr. Hector Garcia is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is also the author of the books: Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, and; Sex, Power and Partisanship. He has published extensively on the evolutionary psychology of religion, warfare, politics, and PTSD. Dr. Garcia has been featured on TED, PBS, and CSPAN.
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The mating minds of mass shooters
Reading Time: 10 minutes OnlySky · The mating minds of mass shooters | Dr. Hector Garcia This time it happened in Uvalde, Texas. A gunman burst into an elementary school, brandishing a weapon designed for combat, and tore our most precious human treasures to pieces. Some of the 19 corpses of nine, ten, and eleven-year-olds that he left strewn […]