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Here’s One Possible Way to ID a Psychopath
Yahoo News ^ | 8-26-2015 | Newser

Posted on 08/26/2015 8:17:40 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

A study published in the Personality and Individual Differences journal finds that individuals with psychopathic traits—including coldheartedness, self-centered impulsivity, and “fearless dominance,” per a press release—are less likely to “catch” a yawn from other people, an action that has suggested empathy and emotional connections with other people in past studies, Smithsonian explains. “I thought, ‘If it’s true that yawning is related to empathy, I’ll bet that psychopaths yawn a lot less.’ So I put it to the test,” the study’s lead author, Brian Rundle, says in the release.

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1 posted on 08/26/2015 8:17:40 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Here’s One Possible Way to ID a Psychopath:

Votes Democrat.


2 posted on 08/26/2015 8:18:55 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I used to yawn a lot more than I do now.


3 posted on 08/26/2015 8:19:10 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Citizen Zed
are less likely to “catch” a yawn

Wow.

4 posted on 08/26/2015 8:22:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Citizen Zed


5 posted on 08/26/2015 8:22:42 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hell, when my cats yawn, I yawn... yet, it seems the girls still think I am a psycho.


6 posted on 08/26/2015 8:23:37 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: TBP

Correct.
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7 posted on 08/26/2015 8:24:37 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Citizen Zed
Go finds that individuals with psychopathic traits—including coldheartedness, self-centered impulsivity, and “fearless dominance,”
8 posted on 08/26/2015 8:25:42 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Citizen Zed

that’s weird... I don’t remember my ex EVER yawning, and she was a diagnosed psychopath


9 posted on 08/26/2015 8:30:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Citizen Zed

The quickest (and easiest) way to spot a psychopath is to study today’s prominent Rat office holders,donors and mouthpieces.The more closely your “subject” resembles them the more likely he/she is to be a psychopath.


10 posted on 08/26/2015 8:33:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Citizen Zed
Dexter photo: Dexter dexter.jpg
11 posted on 08/26/2015 8:41:47 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Anyone at a BlackLivesMatter rally?


12 posted on 08/26/2015 8:47:21 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: TBP

Lives in the White House 1992 - 2000; or 2008 - 2016.


13 posted on 08/26/2015 8:48:18 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Citizen Zed

‘catching a yawn’ also means you’re open to suggestion and in a frame of mind to be easily manipulated


14 posted on 08/26/2015 9:02:52 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Citizen Zed

This passes for science. It’s rubbish. No reasonable conclusion can be drawn from it.


15 posted on 08/26/2015 9:26:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Citizen Zed
Here are two with their daughter .
16 posted on 08/26/2015 9:42:27 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Citizen Zed
They also tend to have flies on their faces.

17 posted on 08/26/2015 9:45:24 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Flies will always find the turd in a tie.


18 posted on 08/26/2015 9:56:00 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A land without borders is not a country. So where did America go?)
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To: BenLurkin

Modern “science” on display.

Where is the hockey stick?


19 posted on 08/26/2015 10:26:58 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Citizen Zed

Observation: Obama does not yawn very often.


20 posted on 08/26/2015 2:46:07 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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