Can we apply this analysis to You Know Who?
When my son was getting ready to enter high school they had an orientation one evening. One of the English teachers spoke for about 15-20 minutes. I was so distracted by her ums and ahs, that I started keeping count. Well over 100. I was very dismayed to hear this coming from the English teacher. :( I’m guessing speech wasn’t her strong suit.
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“How words give them away”
“To examine the emotional content of the murderers’ speech, Hancock and his colleagues looked at a number of factors, including how frequently they described their crimes using the past tense. The use of the past tense can be an indicator of psychological detachment, and the researchers found that the psychopaths used it more than the present tense when compared with the nonpsychopaths. They also found more dysfluencies — the “uhs” and “ums” that interrupt speech — among psychopaths. Nearly universal in speech, dysfluencies indicate that the speaker needs some time to think about what they are saying.”
“With regard to psychopaths, “We think the ‘uhs’ and ‘ums’ are about putting the mask of sanity on,” Hancock told LiveScience.”
“Psychopaths appear to view the world and others instrumentally, as theirs for the taking, the team, which also included Stephen Porter from the University of British Columbia, wrote.”
“As they expected, the psychopaths’ language contained more words known as subordinating conjunctions. These words, including “because” and “so that,” are associated with cause-and-effect statements.”
“’This pattern suggested that psychopaths were more likely to view the crime as the logical outcome of a plan (something that ‘had’ to be done to achieve a goal),’ the authors write.”
“And finally, while most of us respond to higher-level needs, such as family, religion or spirituality, and self-esteem, psychopaths remain occupied with those needs associated with a more basic existence.”
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I, me, my
Oh my. Oh bama...
The have a (D) after their name?
“including how frequently they described their crimes using the past tense.”
As opposed to describing their past crimes in the future tense? What?
Let’s see. The studied are
1 male
2 convicts
3 killers
Could it be language is not their forte?
Not to mention that successful psychopaths are not in prison. They’re out among us, smooth-talking, slick, charming, eloquent.
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"Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
Best put a 24 hour watch on Wookie, Malia and Sasha.
He gets crazier every day. The other day he began a sentence with “it, it, it, it, er, er, er, er,......” Then, like a flooded Harley he caught on a resumed his rambling, short-clipped delivery of sentences that meant nothing.”
It gets tough on the dummy that stands beside him signing to no deaf people in the audience.
Psychopaths appear to view the world and others instrumentally, as theirs for the taking, the team, which also included Stephen Porter from the University of British Columbia, wrote.
OMG!!!! They are liberals!!!!
This computerized speech analysis sounds more hokey than a lie detector test.
This article seems to weigh heavily in the “ would be nice if you told us something we don’t already know” catagory.
If you are talking to someone and their manner and eyes keep making the hair on the back of your neck stand up, there is a good chance that they are a psycopath.
Protect yourself accordingly. Its amazing what we do to overcome our God given abilities for recognizing danger.
Women get raped and murdered because they think its intelligent and enlightened to ignore natural fears.
The number 1 trait of a psychopath is to see individuals, whether you know them or not, as either purely good or purely evil.
Great. Not only is he a narcissist, he’s a psychopath as well. I keep having to revise my description of him, I used to think he was just a racist jackass. Boy, did I shortchange him.
Gee, and I always thought that stupid rationalizations gave them away.