Are Violent Acts Human Nature?
During Vietnam, psychologists wondered if any human was capable of just snapping and behaving in criminal ways while fighting a war. “The conclusion used to be that if you take an ordinary guy, put him under certain social situations, he could act with sadistic behaviors,” says Dr. Randall D. Marshall, director of Trauma Studies and Services at New York State Psychiatric Institute, and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University.
