The Grift of Fear
Dr. Robert W. Malone – In 1997 a security specialist named Gavin de Becker published a book called The Gift of Fear. It is a book about predicting interpersonal violence, and it has trained a generation of readers, mostly women, to recognize the behavioral signatures of predators before the violence arrives.
Charm. Forced teaming. Too many details. Loan sharking. The unsolicited promise. Discounting the word no. de Becker compiled them by working as a threat-assessment consultant for celebrities, executives, and government officials, and by talking, at length, to people who had survived attempts on their lives and to perpetrators who had been caught before completing them.
The patterns are not subtle once you know what to look for. They are also, de Becker argued, recognizable in advance to anyone who has been given the vocabulary. Continue reading
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