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Re: jayaram - childlike simpleton -- hates knowledge and xuccessIt's worse than Dunning-Kruger. How to spot a psychopath. Re-pested from Y! SCOX glory daze. And it's NOT about Trump! Here is a fascinating excerpt from a book by Jon Ronson, entitled "How to spot a psychopath" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may... QUOTE: In the mid-60s, Hare was working as a prison psychologist in Vancouver. He put word around the prison that he was looking for psychopathic and non-psychopathic volunteers for tests. He strapped them up to various EEG and sweat- and blood pressure-measuring machines, and also to an electricity generator, and explained to them that he was going to count backwards from 10 and when he reached one they'd receive a very painful electric shock. ... The tests seemed to indicate that the amygdala, the part of the brain that should have anticipated the unpleasantness and sent the requisite signals of fear to the central nervous system, wasn't functioning as it should. It was an enormous breakthrough for Hare, his first clue that the brains of psychopaths were different from regular brains. He was even more astonished when he repeated the test. This time, the psychopaths knew exactly how much pain they'd be in, and still: nothing. Hare learned something that others wouldn't for years: psychopaths were likely to reoffend. "They had no memory of the pain of the electric shock, even when the pain had occurred just moments before," Hare said. "So what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." Their conclusions became the basis for his now-famous 20-point Hare PCL-R . Which was this: Item 1 Glibness/superficial charm Item 2 Grandiose sense of self-worth Item 3 Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom Item 4 Pathological lying Item 5 Cunning/manipulative Item 6 Lack of remorse or guilt Item 7 Shallow affect Item 8 Callous/lack of empathy Item 9 Parasitic lifestyle Item 10 Poor behavioral controls Item 11 Promiscuous sexual behavior Item 12 Early behavior problems Item 13 Lack of realistic long-term goals Item 14 Impulsivity Item 15 Irresponsibility Item 16 Failure to accept responsibility for own actions Item 17 Many short-term marital relationships Item 18 Juvenile delinquency Item 19 Revocation of conditional release Item 20 Criminal versatility |
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153278 | Re: jayaram - childlike simpleton -- hates knowledge and xuccess | inspector_renault | 0 | 9/18/2019 2:20:07 PM |
153298 | Re: jayaram - childlike simpleton -- hates knowledge and xuccess | crunchie812 | 1 | 9/18/2019 7:13:23 PM |