Psychopaths 🧠​ What Brain Scans reveal about Evil
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/.ㅤ — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 09:04 AM)
It's then legitimate to ask (again) whether criminals can be held responsible for their crimes.
Of course they are responsible. They have control of their actions and know what they are doing is wrong, they just don't care.
My password is password. -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 09:43 AM)
by /.ã…¤ July 23, 2025 11:04 AM
Member since January 25, 2022
"It's then legitimate to ask (again) whether criminals can be held responsible for their crimes."
Of course they are responsible. They have control of their actions and know what they are doing is wrong, they just don't care.
How can you control your actions, when your control by the brain is deactivated? -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 11:19 AM)
hungryinconway July 23, 2025 12:45 PM
Member since June 11, 2017
Nobody likes you, though.
Take a hint and **** off, nazi freak.
Said GoT's
unsullied
who allegedly blocked me.
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Game-of-Thrones/I-am-the-last-of-the-GOT-posters-who-still-maintains-an-unsullied-reputation-3454266/
And why I'm a
"nazi freak"
now, dumbo? -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 24, 2025 02:21 AM)
hungryinconway July 24, 2025 02:15 AM
Member since June 11, 2017
What part of **** off, nobody likes you, do you not understand?
Freak.
You really want to start a fight with me again, hungry baby?
Didn't work so well for you before.
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Moon-Knight/Worst-Disney-Marvel-show-by-far-3388155/
OP Hungry
And your disclosure of my one and only PM to you (without even asking me),
also backfired badly at you.
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sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 11:20 AM)
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/22708438/permalink/#p22708438
Draft Barron Trump -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 23, 2025 11:24 AM)
sheetsadam1 July 23, 2025 01:20 PM
Member since April 22, 2025
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/22708438/permalink/#p22708438
Annoying new troll sock 🧦 links to its AI novel. -
MagneticMonopole — 8 months ago(July 24, 2025 11:25 AM)
Weird coincidence–just yesterday I encountered an article cautioning against this very kind of assertion!
Doesn't mean your article is wrong, only that the issue is complicated and we don't (yet!) know enough about how brain organization leads to such behaviors. I think the authors you cited know this given the notes of caution sprinkled in the concluding paragraphs.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-neuroscience-of-psychopathy-has-a-spin-problem/ -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 24, 2025 11:48 AM)
MagneticMonopole July 24, 2025 01:25 PM
Member since January 18, 2019
Weird coincidence–just yesterday I encountered an article cautioning against this very kind of assertion!
Doesn't mean your article is wrong, only that the issue is complicated and we don't (yet!) know enough about how brain organization leads to such behaviors. I think the authors you cited know this given the notes of caution sprinkled in the concluding paragraphs.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-neuroscience-of-psychopathy-has-a-spin-problem/
That's not really
"weird coincidence"
because the study was recently published.
Of course its discussed then.
And yes, as said in the article in my OP there are
"no easy answers"
and further research is needed.
Especially because
"psychopathy is not a clearly diagnosable clinical symptom, but a psychological construct"
.
Well, with these Factor 1 and Factor 2 was set a good frame to continue. -
cryptoflovecraft — 8 months ago(July 26, 2025 06:59 AM)
Interesting but inconclusive.
appear charming, articulate and self-confident. At the same time, they're incapable of genuine empathy. They lie pathologically, feel no remorse, carelessly violate social rules and are prone to impulsive or violent actions
Sounds like so many people I know (or know of) who are ostensibly happy and successful.
Particularly serial killers often suffered brain injuries as children or youngsters (accidents, brain infections).
Some have, some haven't. Serial killers are all unique individuals with different life experiences. I don't think there's any one pattern or chain of events that create a serial killer or mass murderer. So many different factors come into play. I don't think it's possible to determine beforehand who is more prone to becoming a murderer. It's one of life's many mysteries. -
TaraDeS — 8 months ago(July 26, 2025 07:41 AM)
cryptoflovecraft July 26, 2025 08:59 AM
Member since September 3, 2017
Interesting but inconclusive.
From the article:
"appear charming, articulate and self-confident. At the same time, they're incapable of genuine empathy. They lie pathologically, feel no remorse, carelessly violate social rules and are prone to impulsive or violent actions"
Sounds like so many people I know (or know of) who are ostensibly happy and successful.
"Particularly serial killers often suffered brain injuries as children or youngsters (accidents, brain infections)."
Some have, some haven't. Serial killers are all unique individuals with different life experiences. I don't think there's any one pattern or chain of events that create a serial killer or mass murderer. So many different factors come into play. I don't think it's possible to determine beforehand who is more prone to becoming a murderer. It's one of life's many mysteries.
Perhaps you know more successful psychopaths (who pretend to be happy) than you're aware of?
Yah, I agree…
"many different factors come into play"
to create a serial killer or mass murderer.
Dysfunctional families, childhood abuse, but even brain injuries are much more often when you dig deeper.
And as far as the criminals and their (dysfunctional) families themselves know or admit it.
Well, what shocked me a bit, how many US-American serial killers have German blood in their veins.
This observation is truly unscientific, but if you look at their family names or their parents' names…ähem -
TaraDeS — 7 months ago(August 07, 2025 11:42 PM)
3 Signs your Toddler might be on the Path to becoming a Psychopath
(shortened)
New research shows that this personality disorder can in fact be detected in children.
And the signs that parents should look out for.
According to the studies conducted by Professor Essi Viding (50) and her colleagues at University College London, you can detect behavioural traits that can increase a person's risk of developing psychopathy
in children as young as three or four years old.
The professor of developmental psychopathology told The Telegraph:
"You do not get a full-blown personality disorder as a birthday present when you turn 18, so there are clearly children who have these sorts of traits from a very young age."
She also emphasised that there is a difference between children who are badly behaved and those who exhibit what is known as conduct disorder with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. These traits are characterised by a lack of empathy and muted emotions.
You can identify children who are less affected by other people's sadness or who have a harder time regulating their emotions from as early as three years old.
"Of course, identifying these children early on doesn't mean you can definitively predict that someone will become an adult psychopath, but these are the children likely to be at an increased risk compared with their peers."
Among children, around 1% have the combination of conduct disorder with CU traits.
The key signs to look out for
The typical response after being told off by their parent is for the child to feel bad, so they don't want to behave that way again, but this is not the reaction among children possessing psychopathic traits.
The second is that the child struggled to make connections between doing something wrong and suffering the consequences.
The third is that they don't get the same satisfaction from doing or saying things that make others happy, and instead, typically choose to put themselves first.
"Children with high levels of CU traits don't seem to get the same reward out of pleasing others."
Research on CU traits found in young children
In her 25 years of experience, her previous studies and research has led Prof. Viding to argue the case that no one is born a psychopath, but there are people whose genetic makeup puts them at higher risk than others of possessing such tendencies.
The Telegraph also reported that researches at Cambridge University found that children whose hearts beat faster at the age of eight are at lower risk of developing adult psychopathy.
However, treatment is effective and interventions can work. By adapting parenting styles, learning how to help a child to regulate their reactions and emotions, and seeking ongoing professional help, you can prevent these traits from worsening. Unfortunately, getting funding to help these children is an uphill battle.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/36157120/toddler-psychopath-three-signs-according-to-professor/
August 05, 2025
Hmmmm, doesn't really convince me.
At this young age, almost all children seem like little psychopaths, who need to socialize, they need education. When toddlers exhibit extreme behavioural issues, it's usually their problematical parental upbringing.
But interesting that 8-year-old children whose hearts beat faster become less often psychopaths.
I've no idea how this was discovered or what it actually means.
Should we now chase children around the house more often so they don't become psychopaths? -
TaraDeS — 7 months ago(August 10, 2025 07:02 AM)
by /.ã…¤ August 09, 2025 07:01 PM
Member since January 25, 2022
Maybe it's a fear thing and psychopaths are just naturally cool under pressure.
Yah, an anonymous person on the shared account /. exhibits psychopathic patterns.