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Lt.
Col. Dave Grossman
U.S. Army (Retired)
Director,
Warrior Science Group
Lt.
Col. Dave Grossman is a summa cum laude history graduate,
an Army Ranger, a British Army Staff College graduate, a
West Point Psychology Professor, and the author of the Pulitzer-nominated
book: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning
to Kill in War and Society. On Killing, which
went into its 6th printing in 2001, has been critically
acclaimed in over 100 periodicals and journals in over 30
nations, and has been translated into Japanese and Italian.
Col. Grossman has been recognized as one of the world's
foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the
roots of violence and violent crime, and he has been called
upon to write the entry on "Aggression and Violence" in
the Oxford Companion to American Military History,
and three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia
of Violence, Peace and Conflict. Col. Grossman has also
served as an expert on human aggression in state and federal
courts, including UNITED STATES vs. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH. He
was also the lead trainer of mental health professionals
after the Jonesboro school shootings, where he also conducted
the initial inbriefing of the teachers on the morning after
the shootings.
Col. Grossman has combined his experiences and expertise
to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor,
which he has termed "Killology." Since his retirement from
the U.S. Army in February 1998, Col. Grossman has been called
upon to serve as a speaker and trainer for numerous military
units, U.S. law enforcement agencies and associations, medical
associations and hospitals, and schools and educational
organizations.
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