Stochastic Terrorism- Triggering The Shooters.

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7. Actually, it's more like crowd-sourced psychology. But, the theory is intuitively appealing.

There is some serious published research in communications theory that shows a psychological triggering mechanism and the effects of propaganda. Here are some materials that review the academic literature that goes toward that:

Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan ...
www.hks.harvard.edu/.../Rwand...
John F. Kennedy School of Government
by D Yanagizawa-Drott - ‎2014 - ‎Cited by 15 - ‎Related articles
gation of how to prevent them; isolating the mechanisms that enable elites to carry them ... whether and how propaganda that explicitly encourages violence against a ..... much assistance, one could argue that some of these acts were triggered ... behavior depend on whether others do the same, or 2) psychological factors, ...

[PDF]Book Review: The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda ...
eprints.lse.ac.uk/.../Bo...
London School of Economics and Political Science
by AP Alonso - ‎2013
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New ... How do they exactly trigger psychological mechanisms and forge collective narratives? How do they ...