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"Dumbly applying the nearest pop-psych explanation..." If describing this tragedy as "someone going postal" isn't dumbly applying pop-psych, then I don't know

• mnemonicsloth 17y ago
  "At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly," tells a simple little story. She was under great emotional stress, lost her bid for tenure, and snapped under the strain. "Going postal" is comparatively mum. It's a hybrid of "Going crazy" and "disgruntled postal worker," and suggests only that we think the perpetrator is not sane -- that we can't understand why they would do that. Where is the pop psychology?