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Swan: Woods ethics

By James A. Swan, Ph.D.
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, June 16, 2008

When crowds of people come together, "contagion," occurs — people's emotions take over and a group mentality starts to emerge. You can see this at a football game, or a musical concert. The same thing can happen hunting or fishing. One of the most important researchers of hunting psychology is Wisconsin psychologist Dr. Bob Norton, who along with Robert Jackson, identified the Five Stages of A Hunter that all hunters pass through to become an ardent conservationist — The Shooter, Lim ...

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