Posted on 02/27/2016 5:34:34 PM PST by MtnClimber
Here's a question most anyone who learns I am researching confidence artists asks me: Are con artists clinical psychopaths-or are they just slightly more devious versions of our more conniving selves? Is it a qualitative difference between our small daily deceptions and the wiles of the confidence man, or is it just a simple matter of degree?
Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, the most common assessment tool for antisocial, psychopathic behavior, looks for things like responsibility, remorse, pathological lying, manipulativeness, cunning, promiscuity and general impulsiveness, superficial charm, grandiosity, and the like. Score high enough, and you are labeled psychopathic, or "suffering soul," for the many such you leave in your wake. One of the defining marks of the psychopath is the inability to process emotion like other people. To a true psychopath, your suffering means nothing. There's no empathy. There's no remorse. There's no guilt. When psychopaths experience something that would shock most people-disturbing images, for instance-their pulse stays steady, their sweat glands normal, their heart rates low. In one study of clinical psychopathy, psychopaths failed to engage the same emotional areas as nonpsychopaths when making difficult moral decisions-for instance, whether to smother a crying baby if doing so would save the entire village while a failure to do so would condemn everyone, baby included. For the overwhelming majority of people, it's a draining choice. The emotional areas of the brain fight it out with the more utilitarian ones for an answer. In psychopaths, the battle is absent: They exhibit nonchalance in its most extreme form.
Psychopaths, according to Hare, make up an estimated 1 percent of the male population; among women, they are almost nonexistent (though still present). That means that out of every 100 men you meet, one will be clinically diagnosable as a psychopath.
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0bama, Bill, Hillary?
Analyse the Clintons.
Definitely an Obama he promoted Obamacare when he knew that that would kill people
Bkmrk.
I think I knew a female psychopath, the author claims they are rare.
The author also said that the Robert Hare estimate of 1 percent was possibly very low. I think so too. I also think females exhibiting these traits are not non-existant. I have known some.
I was diagnosed a psychopath but plead down to sociopath. ;)
Very nice video comparison!!!
You forgot to mention the most obvious....POLITICIANS!!!
Creepy. You can really see the demon possession in Manson, and Hillary.
Most politicians are lawyers as well so that one is covered. They love to control others and revel that they are above the misery they cause others.
there are lots of female psychopaths we as a society want to think there is not.
I have known some very wacky females myself and I never forget my seventh grade teacher, she told us that a good woman is better than any man but a bad woman is worse than any man who ever lived. I don’t know if she was technically correct but at least she tried to warn us against automatically trusting a woman simply because she is not a man.
Manson, maybe; but Hillary was just suppressing a burp. I'm no fan of Hillary AT ALL, but let's not be ridiculous.
You must have met my step daughter.
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