they don't let pesky things like conscience or empathy get in the way. Because they don't possess either of them.
(fMRI) brain imaging studies, Hare and his associates found that emotional words and unpleasant pictures did not produce in psychopaths the increases in the activity of brain (limbic) regions normally associated with the processing of emotional material.
neuroscientists did a PET scan of psychopaths after giving them amphetamines, the nucleus accumbens section of their grey matter produced four times as much dopamine.
rewarding stuff is far, far more rewarding to them. So you consider doing something mean and your conscience slams the brakes. But psychopaths' brake line has been cut. And stuff they want is four times as rewarding to them. So someone also put a brick on their accelerator.
...suffering from anxiety is the neurological opposite of being a psychopath when it comes to amygdala function.
. Teaching them about empathy does NOT make them more empathetic. It just teaches them how to fake it better. They see treatment as "finishing school.
Violent psychopaths given counseling were 20% more likely to re-offend
Now full-blown psychopaths are about 1% of the population. So that's 3 million in the US alone. But subclinical psychopaths? Schouten says they're more like 5-15%.
Their thrill seeking nature is mistaken for prized employee qualities like "high energy" and being "action oriented.
(fMRI) brain imaging studies, Hare and his associates found that emotional words and unpleasant pictures did not produce in psychopaths the increases in the activity of brain (limbic) regions normally associated with the processing of emotional material.
neuroscientists did a PET scan of psychopaths after giving them amphetamines, the nucleus accumbens section of their grey matter produced four times as much dopamine.
rewarding stuff is far, far more rewarding to them. So you consider doing something mean and your conscience slams the brakes. But psychopaths' brake line has been cut. And stuff they want is four times as rewarding to them. So someone also put a brick on their accelerator.
...suffering from anxiety is the neurological opposite of being a psychopath when it comes to amygdala function.
. Teaching them about empathy does NOT make them more empathetic. It just teaches them how to fake it better. They see treatment as "finishing school.
Violent psychopaths given counseling were 20% more likely to re-offend
Now full-blown psychopaths are about 1% of the population. So that's 3 million in the US alone. But subclinical psychopaths? Schouten says they're more like 5-15%.
Their thrill seeking nature is mistaken for prized employee qualities like "high energy" and being "action oriented.
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