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Police Psychology | MS-13<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | MS-13 by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP Last week four young men were murdered on Long Island, brutally murdered with machetes.\u00a0 Rumors say their tongue were cut out and they were castrated.\u00a0 It is obvious some sociopathic pleasure was derived from their mutilation. \u00a0Could it be an initiation for a gang, an […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: Can We Sense Danger?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 Can We Sense Danger? Gary S. Aumiller Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP I was working with my daughter on a science fair project for fourth grade.\u00a0 She laid out five different colored pieces of paper and put a treat on each, then separately let go of our cat and dog and recorded which color they went […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | “Inside the Mind” of Donald Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | \u201cInside the Mind\u201d of Donald Trump by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP \u00a0 Let me start by saying that this profile article is my professional opinion based off behavior.\u00a0 I have not met the President yet, and I do not have anything other than his public behavior to base this profile on. […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: Are You Biased, Of Course…<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 Are You Biased, Of Course\u2026 By Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 Just when you thought all the stupidity in the world was surrounding the election this year, I thought I would tell you some more bad news. Judicial Watch just released an article that states that police departments can no longer stop […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Suicide By Criminal<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Suicide by Criminal by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 We have all heard of suicide by cop when a person takes a gun and points it toward a police officer hoping the officer shoots him.\u00a0 Very clearly diagnosed in most situations and multiple cases seem to occur each year.\u00a0 The suicidal […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Inertia: Video Post<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Inertia:\u00a0 Video Post by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP A principle of motion in Physics that can be applied to police work in a psychological way \u00a0<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Managing Your Inner Zombie<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Managing Your Inner Zombie by Doug Gentz, Ph.D. All of us have a complex, pervasive, extensive network of habits that we might as well think of as our \u201cInner Zombie.\u201d It\u2019s responsible for most of our behavior. That turns out to be a good thing because most things we do are best […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Get Thee to a Conference<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Get Thee to a Conference by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 My first experience with a professional conference came when I was 35 years old.\u00a0 My partner and I had started a newsletter for mental health of police officers in the late 80\u2019s.\u00a0 In an attempt to get it out to […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | 30 Dates in 30 Days<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | 30 Dates in 30 Days \u00a0 This is an area where few police psychologist have ever gone.\u00a0 In fact, only two that I know. When we started the book, Red Flags!\u00a0 How to Know When You\u2019re Dating a Loser we, Dan Goldfarb and I just wanted to give some advice to girls […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Why Do I Do That!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Why Do I Do That! \u00a0 Police psychology is sometimes very complicated, but sometimes it is not. Let\u2019s spend today\u2019s post back to the Psychology 101 classical conditioning roots. The funny thing is, this whole discovery and all its implications was actually the result of an accident. Pavlov set out to research […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Are You Cooperative or Competitive?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Are You Cooperative or Competitive? \u00a0 This question resonates for all police psychology from testing to operational to consulting to working with the officer in a therapeutic role.\u00a0 Are you cooperative or competitive? In order to understand this question better, we need to understand the specific differences between these two mental attitudes. […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Mental Shortcuts<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Mental Shortcuts \u00a0 Lately police officers are are being accused of using a lot of shortcuts in their psychology and mental processes.\u00a0 Profiling, prejudice and discrimination are buzz words for mental shortcuts and they have been used with police personnel all too much.\u00a0 This is a major concern in police psychology and […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | The Principle of Relativity (or something like that)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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The Principle of Relativity (or something like that) \u00a0 I like to teach that scientific principles and theories have mental health correlates that we should pay attention to in both police psychology and all denominations of the mental health field. Scientific theory is highly dependent on observation (both inside and outside of experiments) and many […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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