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September 30, 2021
By ARIELLE BASKIN-SOMMERS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | SEP 30, 2021 AT 5:00 AM   On Dec. 11, 2019, Barnard College first-year student Tessa Majors was stabbed to...
August 19, 2021
There Are No ‘Child Psychopaths’ Because We Can’t Diagnose Them. Yet.   A new wave in psychology research suggests people with psychopathy could be helped much...
May 10, 2021
Courts of Dignity Replacing Punishment with Compassion By Meaghan Winter May/June 2021   Ginger Lerner-Wren, before she became a judge, worked at the Broward County Office...
April 30, 2021
Back Page: Environment and Disinhibition   April 30, 2021   Arielle Baskin-Sommers is an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University and a recipient...
April 26, 2021
Social workers and educators who see young people—especially Black boys who live in poor, segregated neighborhoods—react aggressively, become irritable, or have trouble...