The Misnomer of Calling Violent Behavior "Gun Violence"
Calling it "gun violence" is like blaming cars for accidents. It's never going to get resolved until it is acknowledged the issue that's become an epidemic is individual violent behavior.
In the early 1950s, E. Colin Cherry, with his work on audition and auditory stimuli operationalized the term “selective attention.” It was meant to describe processes humans employed while engaging in situations that required what he called ‘statistical filtering.’ Specifically how we as humans attend to certain stimuli for processing auditory informati…
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