Posted on 06/04/2024 3:52:30 PM PDT by Jonty30
How do you spot a psychopath? According to one new study, there’s one recognisable sign.
New research suggests that levels of head movement during a conversation could be an indicator.
Scientists researching in New Mexico conducted a study by observing recordings of women in police interviews.
Just like with men, they found that the most psychopathic among those interviewed kept their heads very still during conversation.
Researchers at the University of New Mexico's Department of Psychology in Albuquerque claim to have conducted the first study into indicators of psychopaths in women.
They said in the study, Personality and Individual Differences: “Nonverbal behaviors (i.e., head dynamics) represent an important, yet understudied, form of communication that may enhance our ability to detect certain forms of psychopathology, including psychopathy. “We believe our results help identify a unique pattern of head dynamics characteristic of women scoring high on psychopathy, specifically, exhibiting more stationary head positioning during clinical interview administration.”
Scientists involved in the study used image processing and machine learning tool to record the head movements of 213 incarcerated women who were told they were being filmed.
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I suspect there are far more than we would want to contemplate.
I have come to the conclusion over the last 20 or so years that the federal government is overrun with people who should not be permitted to roam free.
Thank for that reference. I was not familiar with the term. Did a little searching and reading. Very interesting.
Textbook case
As I have advocated before, every government employee should be required to take the PCL-R test or its successors.
Identifying psychopaths and rating the level is relatively easy. This article is a bit silly to insinuate that it’s a new thing.
You wouldn’t believe the evil crap my ex pulled before she died.
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The easiest way for a psychologist or psychiatrist to identify a psychopath or sociopath or any other of the myriad mental health labels is to gaze into a mirror.
One can entertain distinctly low opinions of the bulk of psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and social workers without dispensing with the idea that some diseased people among us are bent on killing (-path, -pathy) or destroying things, such as properly functioning human minds (psycho-) and/or the basic tenets of beneficial human life in community (socio-).
The definitive study of the pathology of the psychopath/sociopath is “The mask of sanity” by Dr. Hervey Cleckley; his thesis was that the psychopath/sociopath wear a “mask of sanity” to cover up the underlying pathology, hence the title.
I don’t get it. Needle in my eye?
At least she had the decency to die. Mine almost killed me.
They have a "(D)" after their name.
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