Why do some people become psychopaths?

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Psychopathy has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches and Hollywood films alike mirror our curiosity and capture our natural fear of characters who seem to lack basic humanity. Why do some people develop psychopathy and can it be prevented?

Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2017 presented by Professor Essi Viding.

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Its environmental...
I grew up in a hellish household. My mother declared herself a nihilist when I was 14. She was also extremely cheap even though she had a tremendous amount of cash tucked away.
I learned at a very young age (7) that good looking children from wealthy families tended to receive a lot of warm attention and were taken seriously.
The children from poor families who also didnt excel academically or in sports were treated like crap. If you werent cute, it was worse.
Now, if you're a child from the latter category... years and years of being treated like a dumb, three-legged dog it changes you. You become extremely rageful and very callous when you're an adult.

lordvader

Autistic people are NOT psychopaths.
Great work and presentation!

Rootsman

I hate when "they" blame the child. A child who is neglected and abused from infancy and abused or brutalized all their life is going to be less sensitive to facial expressions and pain. I once witnessed a woman viciously beating and screaming at an 18 month old baby. She wanted the baby to stop crying. I'm sure this child would fail a sensitivity test.

avagrego

Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made.
That's the basic difference between both... according to all the science I read about this topic.

a.randomjack

I have a question: Why do we even have psychopaths? And when did it start? Was it when we were cavemen and the people with psychopathic traits would we the hunter gathers to provide or was it a more recent in todays society?

alexandermills

Honestly I just think we respond to logic over emotion and emotional people don’t understand that. Alot of evil stems from emotion, I would even bet moreso than logic.

slideszi

I truly believe that all cluster B disorders are treatable if we are determined enough to find the solution and compassionate enough to assist those plagued with them.

moonmissy

So would a giant toddler create world peace? North & South Korea shaking hands? Etc.

sharonusa

Such a shame I missed this! Really good lecture

HeroGenix

This seems very biased, kind of reminds me of the way other illnesses were viewed decades ago, assuming they’re all serial killers, selfish, grandiose etc…

moleman

If you interested in understanding psychopaths better search for the wisdom of psychopaths, great good

rafaelortega

It's often caused by experiences that are adverse alot of people are born with brain problems and don't become psychopaths some people could lose empathy and no longer have empathy for people and often they learn those violent acts by there parents or by a bully at school it's common for people to no longer have empathy when they been mistreated by people so much and common for them to act out violence for revenge by saying that there born that way your making it sound like it's ok for people to get abused got to stop that psychopaths and sociopaths are often made and if you truly believe there born than never have kids because then your risking creating more psychopaths some of them are made

grandmastermario

The 'devil-up-ment', and the substitution of the 's' sound for the 'sh' sound marred my enjoyment of the talk. Perhaps I am a psychopath myself.

panderichthys_rhombolepis

Absent Fathers 🥴. The psychopaths I know definitely had a father, it was the mother who was the issue. I think there’s a link there.

dottyp

Love how she refers to Donald Trump as a "giant toddler" and only refuses to address whether or not he may be a psychopath (he is not) because she is forbidden to do so, professionally. lol

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