Name: Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde - The Psychology of Gun Violence: How Smart Choices Can Save Lives
Start: 2025-08-25T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108

Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde - The Psychology of Gun Violence: How Smart Choices Can Save Lives
Presented by Left Bank Books & the Left Bank Books Foundation
Join us as we welcome Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde, renowned speaker and celebrated Professor Emerit of Psychology and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Dr. Hyde combines incisive cultural analysis with cutting-edge psychological research to offer science-based strategies and practical solutions of reform for the problem of gun violence in America. The Psychology of Gun Violence: How Smart Choices Can Save Lives will empower readers to take action to reduce gun violence and bolster public health both in their community and their country.
“This is the book I have been waiting for. Hyde addresses the gendered nature and roots of the gun violence scourge in America and offers practical solutions that blend psychology with public health policy. The Psychology of Gun Violence is a must-read for every citizen who is concerned about what our nation is turning into.” ~Ronald F. Levant, former president of the American Psychological Association and author of The Problem with Men
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About the Speaker
Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde is Professor Emerit of Psychology and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. She has studied human development and socialization in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as a developmental psychologist. Hyde is the winner of the Association for Psychological Science's prestigious James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for lifetime achievements in research addressing a critical problem in society. An invited participant in Congressional briefings, Dr. Hyde has been interviewed on The Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, ABC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CBC (Canada), and BBC Radio: Science in Action. She is the author of two highly successful undergraduate textbooks, The Psychology of Women and Gender and Understanding Human Sexuality.
About The Psychology of Gun Violence: How Smart Choices Can Save Lives
What motivates people to buy guns? To carry them? To use them? In this urgent and necessary call for action, Janet Shibley Hyde combines incisive cultural analysis with cutting-edge psychological research to offer science-based strategies and practical solutions of reform for the problem of gun violence in America
Gun violence in the U.S. claims tens of thousands of lives each year. We need a solution more urgently than ever, yet progress is halted from both sides as they fail to understand one another—while some urge for a ban on guns, others are insistent on retaining their firearms. In The Psychology of Gun Violence, Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde shows that in order to bring the epidemic of gun violence under control, we must first understand the psychology of gun ownership, mass shootings, and gun culture in America.
Drawing on her research as a developmental psychologist, Hyde investigates the motivations behind gun use and misuse to transform readers’ understanding of American gun violence and ultimately provide solutions rooted in scientific research. Through psychological research, actionable strategies and real-world ‘good news’ stories that show progress is not only possible, but happening, The Psychology of Gun Violence will empower readers to take action to reduce gun violence and bolster public health both in their community and their country.