On mind reading, see also Robert T. Schultz et al.,
“Abnormal Ventral Temporal Cortical Activity During Face
Discrimination Among Individuals with Autism and Asperger’s
Syndrome,” Archives of General Psychiatry 57 (April 2000).
Dave Grossman’s wonderful video series is called The
Bulletproof Mind: Prevailing in Violent Encounters... and After.
The stories of police officers firing their guns are taken from
David Klinger’s extraordinary book Into the Kill Zone: A Cop’s
Eye View of Deadly Force (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004).
A number of studies have explored racial bias and guns,
including the following: B. Keith Payne, Alan J. Lambert, and
Larry L. Jacoby, “Best-Laid Plans: Effects of Goals on
Accessibility Bias and Cognitive Control in Race-Based
Misperceptions of Weapons,” Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology 38 (2002): 384–396; Alan J. Lambert, B. Keith
Payne, Larry L. Jacoby, Lara M. Shaffer, et al., “Stereotypes as
Dominant Responses: On the ‘Social Facilitation’ of Prejudice in
Anticipated Public Contexts,” Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 84, no. 2 (2003): 277–295; Keith Payne, “Prejudice
and Perception: The Role of Automatic and Controlled
Processes in Misperceiving a Weapon,” Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology 81, no. 2 (2001): 181–192; Anthony