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  • Study: Vigilantism is an identity for some people

    Mar 10, 2022 9:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    With his colleagues, Fan Xuan Chen, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the U. of I., developed a new tool to determine whether an individual has adopted a vigilante identity. Photo by Michelle Hassel

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    • With his colleagues, Fan Xuan Chen, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the U. of I., developed a new tool to determine whether an individual has adopted a vigilante identity. Photo by Michelle Hassel

    Illinois psychology researchers developed a new tool to determine whether an individual has adopted a vigilante identity, characterized by a desire to monitor other people’s behavior and punish those deemed wrongdoers.