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resistance to killing: a standalone construct

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Military psychology

a proposed and debated innate reluctance to kill another person at close range, said to be overcome by training and distance.

In military psychology, resistance to killing refers to a proposed and debated innate reluctance to kill another person at close range, said to be overcome by training and distance. This meaning comes from Grossman (1995) in On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.[1]

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References

Grossman, D., Grossman, D., & Grossman, L. (1995). On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Little, Brown. ISBN 9781497629219

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