The Dark Triad – Part 4 Psychopath
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The hallmark of psychopathy is a lack of empathy. In fact when it comes to empathy, psychopaths have none; they have special difficulty recognizing fear or sadness on people’s faces or in their voices.
In a 2002 Study, David Kosson and Yana Suchy, asked psychopathic inmates to name the emotion expressed in each of 30 faces; compared to controls, Psychopaths had a
significantly lower rate of accuracy in recognizing disgusted facial affect.
Psychopaths are glib and superficially charming, and many psychopaths are excellent mimics of normal human emotion.
The consensus among researchers is that psychopathy stems from a specific neurological disorder which is biological in origin and present from birth. It is estimated that one percent of the general population are psychopaths.
For Psychopaths other people are just a mark, to be duped, used and discarded. They lack any sense of guilt or remorse for any harm they may have caused others, instead rationalizing the behavior, blaming someone else, or denying it outright.
Psychopaths also feel no anticipatory fears, they are virtually oblivious to the threat of punishment.
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