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How to Commit the Perfect Murder

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Is That a Good Idea?

Popular culture often draws simplistic images of people who are villainous or murderous. We make snap judgments based on popular culture, he says. It's called the devil effect, which is that people who look bad are bad. And it's that assumption that if you have a disability, for example, you look like the villain.

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