What survivors America’s deadliest mass shooting remember hints at something surprising about memory under threat
Many survivors of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting described people helping under fire in as much detail as the gunfire itself, a finding that surprised researchers who expected the accounts to center almost entirely on threat.
A recent study of survivors from the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting reveals that their memories of the tragedy were influenced by extreme stress in selective, patterned ways rather than impaired. The 42 survivors documented vivid sensory impressions, focused on escape, and heroic acts, while frequently reporting that time seemed slowed or fragmented. This unique insight into how people remember catastrophic events experienced together was published in Psychological Science.
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