Professor of Psychology Clark McCauley, whose research looks at "lone-wolf" terrorists and paths to radicalization, was quoted in both The New York Times and Time magazine in the wake of the Orlando shooting.
The New York Times article looked at the link between domestic violence and mass killings. The Time magazine piece looked at what motivates individuals to commit such crimes.
McCauley's research interests also include stereotypes, group dynamics, intergroup conflict, and the psychological foundations of genocide and terrorism. He is a consultant and reviewer for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for research on dominance, aggression, and violence, and a principal investigator of the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START). With Dan Chirot, he is author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic of Mass Political Murder and Finding Ways of Avoiding it. With Sophia Moskalenko, he is author of Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us. He is founding editor of the journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. McCauley received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.