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The Psychopath’s Brain
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The Psychopath's Brain Most people find it hard to understand how a criminal and antisocial personalities, such as a serial killer, can occur in humans like us. As much as 25% of the inmate population, show characteristics of `sociopathy'. They lack the conscience and feelings for others, they take what they want, violate social norms and while showing not a hint of regret or guilt. They are unable to hold relationships with family, friends or partners. They will lie, cheat, steal and abuse and are usually manipulative and callous. They use charm, violence etc to get people to do what they want. Unable to learn by punishment, when they find out their behaviour is not tolerated, they disguise it, cunningly. Fatal victims to sociopathy only reveal their true personality moments before death. Although you would think that a sociopath would have under average intelligence, this is not the case,...
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