shell tabangao refinery life: Our Brains Evolved to React to Guns as if They Were Spiders or Snakes

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Our Brains Evolved to React to Guns as if They Were Spiders or Snakes

After each highly publicized mass shooting, there's a political debate about how to make them stop. Researchers and politicians alike present their arguments for certain gun laws, from background checks to assault rifle bans to safe storage.
But Brad Bushman, a psychology and communications professor at Ohio State University, takes a broader view. Bushman researches the psychological mechanisms behind gun violence. And he points out something fascinating: Our brains have evolved to react to guns the same way our distant ancestors might have recoiled at the sight of a snake or a poisonous spider.

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