Reposted by Matt Grace
My student Aadi Mishra and I have a new paper out looking at the mental health effects of mass shootings in the United States. Using the Household Pulse Survey and a database of public mass shootings from Northwestern University, we show widespread increases in anxiety & depression.
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Frontiers | Silent echoes: understanding and predicting the widespread mental health impact of mass shootings
Half of the 20 deadliest US. mass shootings have occurred in the past decade. We propose and find that the mental health consequences of such shootings are n...