Wednesday May 4, 2022Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by several characteristics, including antisocial behavior, lack of empathy, and having an unpredictable temperament. Psychopaths are very good at pretending and their actions can harm other people.
Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder can appear since childhood. Generally, the symptoms will become more obvious between the ages of 20 and 30 years.
In children, symptoms that appear can include cruel behavior towards animals, explosive anger, not wanting to get along, and like to intimidate or 'bully' their friends.
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In certain cases, poor school performance can be an early sign of a psychopath. The exact cause of psychopathy cannot be identified with certainty.
This disorder is predicted to arise due to genetic influences and childhood traumatic experiences. It was concluded that, because most of the psychopaths found, if traced their family background, usually grew up in a family that was not harmonious.
This disharmony can be in the form of abuse and neglect of children, parents who are addicted to alcohol, or parental fights / feuds.
Psychopaths are more often found in men than women. How to know someone is a psychopath? It seems that a team of researchers from the University of Cardiff and the University of Swansea in the UK has a specific answer in a study of researchers showing bad pictures from fierce dogs to mutilated body parts.
From there, the research team looked at the reaction to whether there was a difference in the response in the eyes of a psychopath and a non-psychopath. In fact, a psychopath does not show pupil dilation, while a non-psychopath has pupil dilation.
The study's lead author, Dr Dan Burley, from Cardiff University's School of Psychology, said the findings provide physical evidence that psychopaths have less empathy than they should.
What distinguishes psychopaths from normal humans is a moral basis or conscience.
Psychopaths are known as people who do not have a conscience or empathy, so their actions can harm others. Pupils have long been known as an indicator of a person's arousal. The pupils also usually dilate when an image surprises or frightens us.
A clinical and forensic psychologist from Swansea University also said that the results of this study are objective, physiological, evidence of the emotional deficits underlying psychopathic deviant behavior without having to rely on invasive methods or expensive equipment.
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for me a psychopath is a terrible person but it makes me curious about that person.