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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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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, characterized by a desire to monitor other people’s behavior and punish those deemed wrongdoers.

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