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I always found these kind of studies bullshit: the worse serial killers and pedophiles were sometimes described as "nice" and "charming" people. I don't think
by mam2 6y ago
I always found these kind of studies bullshit: the worse serial killers and pedophiles were sometimes described as "nice" and "charming" people.
I don't think it's accurate to make a clear line between "real sociopathy" and "normal people" based on your behavior. Everyone has personal goals, interests, (whether good or bad) and try to have what he think is the the optimal behavior (wether good or bad).
The real question is what are you real personal goal / interests, not how you behave.
- playpause 6y agoExtreme outliers aren't useful indicators when trying to understand general trends.
- mam2 6y agoIt's only outliers if you think "most" sociopath "should" look like it. The truth is you don't know and I actually think most sociopath looks totally normal.
- tartoran 6y ago> I always found these kind of studies bullshit: the worse serial killers and pedophiles were sometimes described as "nice" and "charming" people. That is at first sight. Psychopaths have a surface level charm but spending enough time with them and the illusion shatters. A real agreable and nice person has that as a baseline, that’s a big facet of their personality.
- lazyjones 6y ago> That is at first sight. Psychopaths have a surface level charm If they participated in psychology studies, which category would they fall in?
- tartoran 6y agoI couldn’t answer that. There could be deceptive people whose intention is to subvert such studies but I doubt they’d make much of a difference. All I could sat is that the psychopath’s charm is always exerted with some goal in mind.