Me too.

You really need to get a life

I think watching and learning about stuff that really interests me is part of a great life, but thanks for your concern.

Haha lol a psycho just pops up and abuses you 😑

Master of Zero fart you

I think there is a huge big difference between the pro-social ones and the anti-social ones in society. They have completely different traits.

@@Laura-bq4um Well they're really good at not being affected by job performance. Which ironically helps them to better focus and perform better. Their carelessness helps them in that regard. But this is only a positive as long as they care enough to do their job. These personality traits have both positives and negatives, like any personality traits. Psychopaths might be good at handling highly stressful situations, but they struggle with social connection. It's one thing is to create relationships. It's another to actually maintain those relationships. The mask tend to slip, and you'll realize how little they actually care about you.

Have you ever dealt with a narcissist often times they have a lot of similarities sing with borderline personality disorder and a lot of others it doesn’t mean they’re violent or dangerous or bad to society it’s just the way the brain works 😌

@@hannah9962 A lot of the cluster B personality disorders tend to overlap.

Speaking first hand it's very easy to hide when you aren't violent/a killer. You can understand really well what someone wants and just give it to them. Specifically, you can say the right things or convey the right emotions to move the conversation how you want it, and it usually avoids conflict while getting what you want. I have my family, and a bunch of friends and with all of them no clue. I don't want to kill anyone, but I do find myself leeching and using people to get what I personally want. I try not to lie although it's pathological, simply to avoid being caught in a lie. I know I'm not alone and have encountered at least 2 others in my life and we did not get along. I do appreciate the things people do for me but I also don't have an emotional connection to them. I've been in what I thought was love but simply was a sexual attraction on a deep scale. I do find the idea of a wife and kids to be a goal if I'm honest because I'd like someone to myself, and the ability to mold my child into what I believe could be near perfect, or could continue my lineage as I have accepted I am not god and will die (for some reason 16y/o me thought I was basically god) . I nearly confessed to a friend but decided against it simply to avoid problems. All in all, though, I consider myself a good man who will do right by the people around me the best I can, as to hopefully build a close tribe of my own people.

I think He's just following his interests

Not me. The only thing he teaches me is that almost-psychopaths can be of good use.

@@rursus8354 absolutely

Or so he's making you think!

He is actually advancing the understanding of himself...

Yes. I thought narcissists couldn’t reflect on the effects of their own behavior - perhaps except if it proved their best interest to do so?

@@brightpage1020 i believe what is occurring is a self actualization by Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, a compulsion to organize what looks like a diagnosis but is a repetition of a diagnosis.

It's possible if u actually want to put in the work to do it

@@brightpage1020 they can. It's just very difficult for them and they don't want to

@@brightpage1020 narcissism and psychopathy are two different conditions, though there is some overlap.

these are also the traits commonly seen in psychopathy

I think you can also sense that he is not “evil”.

@@ciobalina7445 That’s the whole ruse. If the wheels are turning in his head, that he knows what he’s doing is working, he’ll keep at it, not because he enjoys socializing with everyone, but because it makes him feel important. It would be on the spectrum of “evil” but a very mild form, and one that doesn’t spiral out into criminal activity.

@@ciobalina7445 that term evil is not rightly used. If a person is born with a defect in the brain which affects his empathy/behaviour/emotions, it shouldn't be termed as evil.

@@manavchowdhury1337 Actually, it is used properly. Evil is about a person’s character. By your logic, we wouldn’t be able to call anyone evil. It should be clear that almost everyone who is trully evil has something wrong in their brain.

Exactly what I was thinking. How many psychopaths are walking around undetected because they simply didn’t have the environment growing up that would lead to an expression of the negative behavior we so commonly associate with psychopaths.

@@BeardLAD I’ve heard it might be as high as 3%

@@paddlefar9175 there's a 33% chance ur a fartopath

@@nikkingman funniest thing ive seen all week

Sometimes, nature does throw out a terrifying individual for no reason I'd suggest tho

​@@rkim2214 True true, agree with your statement

It proves that you should use reason for morality

What a ignorant , idealizing psychopath the one who are successful doing that will be just this guy and maybe other one, so the 0.00000000000000000000000001% percent in the world DO NOT BE SO NAIVE, he is complete BIAS, obviously … cant not you see that?

And being an empath doesn't make a person moral either. Being over-sympathetic can lead to passive-aggression or even overt violence against imaginary enemies in the people around you over trivial offenses that are inflated to justify the excessive expression of nurture. Much like over-possessive mothers, Munchausin syndrome (spelling?), or the types of group targeting and violence 2020 & 2021 saw, all in the name of safety and "protecting" people. The balanced, middle road is always best. Going too far to either side of the empathy spectrum is very destructive.

I don't think that he bothers with morality. He bothers with what's constructive for society. He would kill 10 kids to save 1000. Is he moral? No.

Explains the high-trust cultures of Northern Europe

@@TomorrowWeLive high-trust cultures...where; who?

@@TomorrowWeLive ????? what

@@magicunclefergaloreilly6699 Northern Europe, very homogenous, very environmentally harsh, and therefore high trust. That is until they started importing the third world en masse.

Well, I guess it's unsettling to have someone who openly describes himself as a psychopath standing there in front of you, even if he's not a violent one. The thing is, he comes across as quite charming and funny, and that's a psychopathic trait. So I think the uncomfortable ones were thinking "is he manipulating us into liking him?"

Good Golly Miss Molly My mother and I decided we have a few psychopaths in our family. Through educating myself, I think I've become more sensitive to spotting them but who can be so sure. I do appreciate his honesty. I don't know if you watched the series: Person of Interest. The character Shaw appeared to be a psychopath.

The psychopaths laughed, the normal Inês didn't?

Kasnar Burns you and your mother *decided* you have a few psychopaths in your family??? Uh... you do realize it doesn’t work like that, right???? Psychopathy is a complex diagnosis. Just because someone is careless, reckless, violent, an asshole, etc., doesn’t mean they’re a psychopath..

@@beautifulexplosives259 I would say most of those behaviors you mentioned do spring from people who have psychopathy. They don't care about the feelings of others, do not have empathy, otherwise they wouldn't be capable of the behaviors you mentioned.

How do you mean?

Wonderful!

what?

Did a psychopath knock you up?

This is what is known as the "one truth". Before the modern era that truth was found in religion, now many people find it in science. But science is not a body of knowledge, it is a method for testing our knowledge. Yet still many are confused by what it means to "trust the science". A published research paper is not "science", science is the toolset used to produce such paper. Invoking the toolset to justify what is has created is asinine. Consider a carpetener with the very best tools, but all the works he produces are garbage, should you still pay him top dollar because he uses the best tools? My point im trying to reach is, don't have absolute trust in medicine. Nor do I think you should automatically reject medicine, but the pharma corps want to write into the history books that everything is fixable via pill, using science as a trojan horse.

@@BlastinRope Your point is very well stated and very well taken.

​@Shimmy Shai The point about behavior in psychopaths vs other lets say 'neurodivergent' people, is that of MOTIVATION. It is very hard to get a totally self-interested person motivated to help someone else in a non-(also)-self-serving way. In fact it might be impossible, but then again we have records of criminals who learn a lot about law etc in prison and get out, and are able to have enough self-discipline to lead a reasonably law-abiding life, without doing anything to land them back in jail again. So it *must* be possible for some psychopaths if not for all of them. If they don't get the same emotional 'reward' that most other people do in helping someone else, I think they may fail to see the point of this behavior, unless they are capable of imagining how all the pieces (of various people helping each other) fit together to complete the entire beautiful whole of a functioning society. The thing is: by their entire orientation / life philosophy being one of self-interest, they are automatically not interested in other people, other than 'what the others can do for _them_', and by not being able to empathize OR sympathize with others, they are not seeing others in a true way as fully human individuals but more like as non-real characters in a video game or else as objects/meat puppets. This includes other family members, although some psychopaths are able to see family members as being 'extensions of themselves' which is both good and bad, meaning they may hesitate more to hurt them in the sense of like, say, if they see a sibling or parent as being 'their arm', they don't want to smash their own arm with a hammer or saw it off, but also, this means, they may see smashing it or sawing it off (if they perceive it as 'gangrenous') as being a hard but necessary means to an end in their own view. So family members are a bit _safer_, but they are not SAFE.

@Shimmy Shai (part 2) It's a form of emotional blindness that also extends deeply into the foundation of one's character. The fact that there is generally no true self-reflectivity or worry about one's own character, or drive to change or improve (at least traditionally, or at the beginning), is really a major problem especially in terms of changing / getting therapy. They can SAY they're doing anything/everything to change, but actually doing the thing in their own head / when no one else is looking (which is more important than just claiming to do it), is an entirely different story. It's not like other people who have character flaws and outwardly cover them up while secretly worrying about them / trying to fix them, and who are being honest with themselves... AFAIK psychopaths, at least in the earlier part of their lives, cannot see themselves as anything less than perfect and the center of the universe. At least, I have a very hard time believing that they can. If they _can_ try to see this, they will have achieved the first major step in self improvement. They don't need to see the me-vs-you situation as a 'black and white' or 'all or nothing' thing as in 'you suck and I'm great' or 'I suck and you're great'... really it's more like a sliding scale of KIND and DEGREE rather than of merely "one or the other" thing. It's more like, many other people _do_not_ see life 'as a contest' or a race, and thus do not act accordingly. This doesn't mean people of that philosophy/brain type(s) (non-psychopaths who more naturally care about / help others) are 'stupid' or 'easily left in the dust' but rather that for their own personal life philosophy, that kind of thing (life being a gigantic pissing contest / race to the top) is not _important_ to them. It is not really what makes them happy, and they are able to derive a great deal of satisfaction / happiness with life through other means. It is also situational, in that some individuals will act better / more ethically / more usefully both to themselves AND others in a given situation than others will, in other situations, but different can be true of the SAME individuals, in different situations, as people have different personal strengths. These are probably the most fundamental reasons why they either can't change or have a very hard time changing: 1. they don't trust others, not in an emotional / variable sort of way like in 'broken/damaged' or otherwise neurodivergent way, but in a fixed, unchanging and unemotional way, as they see life as a sort of ladder to the top or a sort of dog-eat-dog world, and naturally assume everyone is lying to them about nearly everything, including trying to help them, (EVEN WHEN it makes no logical sense for the other person to be lying to them about something!!!). Thus, true sincerity is probably a concept which they naturally cannot understand from the *inside* or intuitively, or only learn about thru caring enough to learn about it / lots of self-motivation and study. I have seen presumed psychopaths laugh at sincere and caring individuals and call them 'fools', 'gullible', 'easily manipulated', and 'sheeple', not realizing the real complexity that actually underlies these behaviors. They seem to genuinely believe people like that are actually simpler than they are and somehow functioning on a lower level, probably by themselves not actually experiencing this kind of functioning from within and so understanding what makes it work, which actually makes it very high-level behavior.

(Part 3) Their own totally-self-interested, completely-self-serving, me-against-the-world life philosophy seems to be OK for them and work for them, since they (at least in the beginning) continually don't care about others or see them as in any way equal, and so due to this overriding philosophy / mentality, it is really hard or impossible (depending upon the individual, their age, their life experiences etc) for them to do anything for anyone else in a non-self-serving way, as mentioned above, as not only do they not get an emotional reward, but they see it as merely slowing down their own drive towards their goals. So they don't have a PROBLEM with being completely self-interested, and not having a _problem_ with it means they're unlikely to do anything to try to _fix_ it. I am not at all sure how to get people to care who are physically missing the brain structures necessary to enable them to care, but I will put some theories below, based on stuff I've read / people I've met. Now it sounds like I'm being very harsh towards psychopaths, and I am, but it is not to provoke some rise out of them (since I don't know who reading this is / isn't a psychopath and so I don't intend any of this PERSONALLY towards any specific individual) but rather to COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY to non-psychopaths reading this thread, what it is probably like, so that they can hopefully make more informed decisions in dealing with these kinds of people, instead of assuming things about them that probably aren't true. I do hope that some real psychopaths read it, and even if they laugh at me / the philosophy, that as the years pass, they will realize there is a great deal of truth and reality in it, in the way most people are / most of the world works, and that perhaps it can help them improve, if they've gone up against the world and realized that society doesn't function properly when populated by people entirely like them, or really function at all. This is, unfortunately, why most people would rather just cut off a psychopath from contact entirely than deal with them, as it's not only dangerous, but also exhausting due to the predatory/parasitic behavior. Hopefully after being cut off enough by enough people, a typical psychopath will realize that they DO need to work with others a little bit in order to achieve more of their own personal (law abiding) goals, and will adjust their behavior accordingly. Hopefully that, even if they are unwilling or unable to see others as total equals, they will still see that others want to be treated with some _respect_ and will hopefully try to discover what 'respect' means to the average person in order to give them at least a basic modicum of respect 'as a social lubricant'. That doesn't mean I'm advising, like therapists to 'never try to psychologically etc help a psychopath' but more like 'know what you're getting into, treat them with respect but never trust them, and don't expect real or continued improvement, unless they happen to see/understand some form of improvement as also a benefit to them'. I realize that trust is a form of respect, so therapists/others need to show them a modified form of respect absent of trust, and they(the psychopaths themselves) need to realize that the absence of trust is not intended to 'diss' them (as it might 'diss' a non psychopath), but rather is a self-preservation move on the part of the therapist/other person helping, due to the very nature of their character, and is supposed to be a smart and good thing. They also realize that a savvy therapist will be looking at changes in their behavior / day to day life rather than listening to much self-reporting, due to the absence of trust / presumption of continual lying, and so they need to put in the work to actually show some improvement or else the therapist won't want to waste their time with that person, as they have many other people to help. Of course I'm making the therapist sound a bit mean, but given the danger and/or timewasting involved when dealing with a true psychopath, they most likely will need to adopt some sort of different attitude than with dealing with most other clients, and the psychopath must realize it's not _intended_ to be mean, again as mentioned in the previous paragraph. The psychopath (and this may be hard) needs to _not_take_that_personally_ and realize that again, the real world does not revolve totally around them, and that there are so many other people needing help, and only so many therapists to go around to help all those other people. If they truly want help on some level, they need to _demonstrate_ their capability / willingness to change, because given the nature of psychopathy, once another person finds out they are a psychopath, that other person will understandably just assume that the psychopath is or could be lying all or most of the time, or at least manipulating if not outright lying, let's say due to the historical behavior of SO MANY OTHER psychopaths. But this is first presuming that the psychopath wants help / wants to go to therapy unbidden as opposed to say court ordered / family ordered therapy they may be trying to get out of, (as they don't see the point). This is one reason (besides bad behavior) which is why the unfortunate brush-up / dust-up of they vs the law / law enforcement sometimes DOES work, in that by understanding more and more of the law, etc etc as spelled out in books etc in black and white, they start being able to better adjust to the norms of society, if never 100%, as MANY of these norms have by now been written into laws, with some explanation behind them. Unfortunately, for some individuals this only happens AFTER going to jail/prison, and for still others, they completely have no desire whatsoever to fit into society or follow ANY rules / treat ANY other people with respect and thus might be doomed to stay in prison etc forever, if they are already there.

+Tom C And conscience

@Rani Khatri Not sure the relevance.

don't be childish. psychopaths extremely rarely turn into serial killers. most of them turn into world leaders. kings, presidents, generals, bankers, stock brokers, venture capitalists, politicians and CEOs, nobody calls them KILLERS. monsters whose orders were genocidal or borderline inhumane, whose actions incited wars, coups, murders, and/or ended up in environmental catastrophes through which children actively grew up into damaged people, incapable of compassion for a reason. they give them medals and Nobel piece prizes instead.

@@milanstevic8424 Hitler? Stalin? Ivan the terrible? Vlad the Impaler? These are just a few. Not all get called murderers but lots do.

@@milanstevic8424 "nobody calls them killers" dude we are living in 2021, they're saying "eat the rich" now. Black Sabbath wrote war pigs in 1970 plenty of people have been calling kings, presidents, generals, bankers, stock brokers, venture capitalists, politicians, CEOS, etc. for decades

toodleloo I reckon he has a natural curiosity to find the truth about stuff... which has led him here. It is indeed great as it debunks so many myths about psychopaths.

yeah that's why most of them are atheists

@@tamna5044 I got a notification but it didn't reach here. So, maybe normal for you may not be normal for me or normal for me may not be normal for you. Everyone sees normal differently.

​@@andina5269 You think atheists have no compassion? Think again. It's just atheists don't need a religious dogma to have that. By the way, buddists monks try to distance themselves from emotion. But they're not atheists (or yes, in a way they are, they don't believe in a god). Are you saying they're not compassionate? It's making decisions through emotions that make you easily misled and indoctrinated.

@@carpetclimber4027 I don't mean to say or insinuate that atheists have no compassion. I'm pretty sure there are atheists out there who have better character than a religious person. I am just saying that majority of the scientists I see at least in the Western world are atheists.

Correct. I liked the presentation a lot.

Truth

Everyone thinks they know so much about us and think we're all terrible people. I don't even back our government when it goes to war, our cops, or any other violence, but I'm a problem in society? Not the religious fucks that hate people and want them dead just because they don't follow the same religion as them? Bush invaded Iraq because he said God told him to do it, but I'm the problem in society? The way I think? Too funny.

@motivational vibes I don't know about all that. I get social anxiety often and stops me from doing things. I don't like failure or failing in front of people. I don't like going into places and not sure whats going to happen either. I missed a class one semester just because I was anxious about what we would be doing.

Psychopaths and narcissists always leave me with a creepy feeling. I guess some of us ignore that better than others.

“I’m a normal guy, I just play the game well”

@@BeardLAD When dealing with psychopaths you truly need to stop looping into the lymbic system... wake up, you are dealing with a monster inside a human body!!!!!!! Beware!!! This is no joke... we truly feel compassion towards these monsters inevitably because of that. It's the normal way for human beings to think.

*limbic

Inefficient for what? As the lecturer pointed out, it depends on what the objectives are. Most psychopaths wouldn't have survived in a tribal society unless they became ruthless leaders, like some tribes of chimps. Nobody in their sane minds would want to be lead by such people, so it is mostly through force and manipulation they can achieve it.

They do have feelings though, hence the terrible persecution and revenge for hurts real or imaginative. I once heard a well-known Autist claim that she has no feelings and therefore is good with troubled people. She said she feels light or dark at different situations and people though, - which means feelings, I claim.Only because we aren't aware of our feelings and are too much up in our heads instead, doesn't mean that we don't have feelings.

Psychopathy is a defence mechanism. Either they, or their ancestors, were severely damaged and they are the result. I say ancestors, as I'm referring to those born with primary Psychopathy, which is genetic.

That kinda fits my description from when I was a kid, I only felt close to them after maturely understanding what they did for me

@@darthtroller If you see someone in emotional distress, what reaction do you have? Do you ever have a visceral reaction and maybe even tear up a bit imagining how tough their situation is and feel emotional at all? Or, do you just think, “ Yeah, that would be bad. I’m glad I’m not them!”, with not much or any emotion?

@@paddlefar9175 I only felt sad when I related to their problem, if it was something stupid they were trying to cry over, I tried to make light of the situation by making light jokes which sometimes could sound a bit insensitive

@@darthtroller It's fairly normal to take your parents for granted in everyday life. I think a better question might simply be if you have ever cried simply because you realized you have been a jerk to someone who didn't deserve it. I had a moment like this in my late teens after seeing how my girlfriend at the time's parents treated her, and I realized just how much my mother cared for me. I had a moment alone where I balled my eyes out, and decided to write her a letter thanking her, essentially, for being a good mother. Needless to say, our relationship improved a lot after that. In any case, this is just one example, but the suffering of others, and even just thinking about environmental destruction, has brought me to tears. Are there experiences in your life like this? Not necessarily to the point of producing tears, but where you recall having a deep emotional response to the suffering of others? Perhaps an impulse to hug and to hold them as a result. Not just a recognition of "Oh that looks painful. Here have some ice."

@@paddlefar9175 everyone who watches the news becomes numb

He himself has said that the basis of his psycopathy is that he does not care (he doesnt feel it). The motivation behind why he acts caringly, as he explained, is selfish. He said, at some point he realized that people dont really care weather treating people nicely is based on a feeling or not...people just want to be treated nicely.

U think psychopaths are like monotone poker face robots or sum

He doesn't care. I get it. He's just so used to be charming that he probably does it automatically without even noticing any more. I'm really glad his mother treated him well... Even in the talk he described what happened to his family members who weren't treated well...

Charm is a technique. Yeah, they appear nice if you crave flattery or love. Until they decide it would be fun to cut your head off.

He’s just a psycho don’t be fooled he just loves the attention.

Yeah, he snapped and murdered his family

@@Z_Co95 lol

Hey murdered a school bus full of mentally retarded children for funnies 🤕

Update: world is still run by psychopaths.

I'm interested too!

Narcissistic side of a psychopath inhibits(usually like is in Fallons case) to admit to the fact, that our current state of affairs in general is in a huge risk to lead all the complex life of the planet to go extinct. This is due to characteristics of psychopaths. In the big picture, we are in a huge risk to destroy such a huge portion of our habitat, that we do not have the capacity for ex. secure all the nuclear power plants(resent findings from ocean floor sediments near Antarctica shows us, that the sea level will most likely rise abruptly & not by any "smooth" exponential rate..), methane from Laptev Sea is going to come up(nobody knows exactly how much, but posses a huge risk of Earths average temperature to rise several degrees Celsius in just few years, AI coming self aware i.e. conscious and operating in a way that humans are not able to control "it"(can be Ai created by Ai and so on, thus ") etc. Human hubris and specially psychopaths arrogance(special kind of hubris) might be a leading factor to our species utter and complete die out. Very important topic and also want to Thank You James Fallon to address this issue, even he lacks the part of the brain to really understand the risk he 7 his appears cause to all living things , or maybe better put just doesn't care, thus doesn't cross his mind.

When it comes to metacognition, they just can't do it well,to put it mildly. The last part of the talk was just jibber-jabber left for us to figure out the meaning and the morals of this whole story for ourselves..since,let's face it ,and he also knows it too well (due to his cognitive empathy) ,nobody really wants to hear his own egocentric opinion on this subject and be reminded that he is,indeed, a psycho :) After all,only those empathetic and prosocial beliefs are the ones that are popular in public :)

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lah5mqx1psm9Y5s.html Is telling the personal truth in the end of the talk a good idea... xD I think narcissists would beg to differ..

@@ST-yc7uj Too much superficiality when it comes down to empathy. That's how they are and they will never do it better because you need to really feel the emotions to think and act better than just understanding them a little bit. Psychopaths will never truly understand emotions because they will never feel them as deeply as a normal person. When a person sees a child crying, a psychopath will never understand the feeling as well nor as deeply as a normal person can. They are truly blind when it comes to put on someone else's shoes. No matter how hard they try, they will never get as good as a normal person.

Narcissism is not a habit it's a disorder of the brain stop making it so personal

Interesting thought! I agree that early and consistent behavior modification and regulation of girls could explain why there seem to be fewer psychopathic women than men -- they've purposefully been taught to act prosocially, at least in public.

@@MM-jf1me Stoicism, lack of fear, aggressiveness etc. tends to be rewarded more in men than women. From what I understand autism tends to be harder to spot in girls as well since it tends to present differently.

I would guess female psychopaths could be "easier to spot" or maybe people would give them a harder time

I've heard a female psychopath say that they were somewhat immune to gendered socialisation, I'm autistic and I feel similarly

​@@hamerugumiandthevocaloidfa8654 Not sure I'd say I was completely immune, but definitely more resistant to it. I was lucky to be raised by people who rarely said girls or boys shouldn't do things for gender reasons. I tend to test more masculine on personality tests, so I think double down on some aspects of femininity like keeping my hair long and refusing to use handshakes to show off my physical strength. But I'm not "girly" in the stereotypical sense. I have at least as many male as female friends, etc. I suspect female psychopaths are a bit harder to spot, because general society tends to see stoicism as a masculine trait. So boys are praised for not showing emotion and/or penalized for showing emotion. Girls can get negative feedback for not showing emotion and positive feedback for showing it. So they learn to fake it earlier. I know I occasionally cried in elementary just to get a break from bullying/ostracizing more than a real need to cry. It hit me more how weird it was in high school. My art teacher was yelling at me and I knew crying was the only way to make her stop yelling long enough to listen... Not sure if that would have worked as well if I was a guy. I struggled with that moment, because I didn't want to be manipulative, but I did need to communicate in that moment in a way she would understand... and it did calm her down, so I could explain/apologize. I had done a small thing wrong, but she was accusing me of a lot of other things that I had not done.

I don't think that's neccesserily the explanation for his apprehension, the entire field of neurology has almost ubiquitously disregarded Freudian ways of analyzing human behavior; his apprehension regarding the role of environmental factors (i.e. experience) in neurological development was (and still widely is) the norm.

@@lancewalker2595 I know that very well. In my oppinion neuropsychoanalysis (see Marc Solms) delivers the most comprehensive nature+nurture results that are hard to dispute. Nevertheless, the thought might be entertained nonethless that there might be a connection to individual personality that someone (or many, as you pointed out) takes on such an extreme nature over nurture stance as the lecturer in the clip (not saying neurologists are all psychpaths, of course). Many neurologists are aware that their angle is just that - an angle to look at a problem, and does not deliver a comprehensive explanation.

and it goes very handy with the whole libertarianism ideology (which goes well with social darwinism) And yes, his point of view is rather the mainstream one. So the question is, do we really need to endorse massive narcissism/psychopathy-shaped view on neuroscience or do we need to finally reform the field by including attention to emotional intelligence and experience?

If you don’t mind, can you expand upon how they were toxic? I could definitely imagine how a university environment could effect ones self worth.

No, it doesn't. You can be mentally/emotionally strong enough and have a healthy enough psyche to do well in academia. That's not being a psychopath. For instance, all three of my sisters, none of whom is a psychopath or even comes close to it, have completed advanced academic studies and continued to work in more or less academic fields, and two of them have continued to thrive. The one who's been broken down by her career is too emotionally fragile while the other two aren't. I myself didn't even make it through my studies before my vulnerability forced me to drop out. It's a question of being strong enough or not; not about your levels of empathy etc. Oh, by the way, I've personally come across only a handful of unpleasant persons among the many, many academics I've known. That world isn't necessarily as toxic as you make it sound - at least not in my country, Denmark. Admittedly, now that I think about it, I can't rule out the possibility that it may be different in other countries. :D

@@malovela exactly. U have to adapt and build up that mental fortitude. If u know u are a very sensitive person u need to develope a counter side to balance it out or u won't survive in these environments

That's absurd

@@malovela You sound like a psychopath lol

I think it’s obvious, isn’t it. 🙂 he’s a wannabe psychopath. Actually he has Asperger’s/autism

Could be anything. He even could be a killer and we wouldn´t know unless he wanted us to. He is smart and extremely charming. Im rarely intimidated, but this guy is dangerous. If he acts like this in normal conversations I probably wouldn´t have come across the thought of him being a psychopath.

Quite a bit. They are excellent actors & liars.

psychopathy doesn't mean he's hiding a dead body in the basement, it could simple things like lack of empathy, lack of anxiety, a stone cold reaction to catastrophic events or otherwise zero emotional to what most people would react to etc. Doesn't mean they are not charming or humorous these are not emotion more logic personas

@@justrandom4304 Of course a Psychopath can be, and commonly IS humorous & charming ... part of the required Veil. Actors extraordinaire.

you don't need ancient times. nature is a constant process, and not every feature of it is vestigial, contrary to what science wants us to believe. in other words, we're still living in the ancient times, and we still have life and death situations, it's just not as obvious as it once was, but oh boy it sure got more confusing, which we see reflected in the artificial balance of mortality through cancer and immune diseases that are skyrocketing.

@@milanstevic8424 On emotional level our society has not moved @ all. But I am not sure if you are taking into account our current average life span (vs some 50 years only couple of centuries ago). In early time, if an individual developed cancer/immune disease, no one would have been able to detect it, never mind run a record of a certain decease population accumulation for our assessment. Many of these deceases also occur later in life, so 200 years ago an individual with predispositions may have died due a simple infection/cholera etc. much earlier in life.

I think Ascendrio is spot on. I firmly believe that when humans first evolved, we were much like psychopaths, and it was only through evolution that it became apparent that this type of behavior was/is destructive and harmful towards society and humanity, and that if it continued in this way, humanity would totally die out, and thus we evolved higher-level additional brain structures to enable us to self-regulate, think ahead, and empathize/sympathize with other people (and eventually, other creatures) which has enabled societies to grow and flourish, and if we use them properly, we can also maybe also save the planet from ourselves as well as saving each other from each other.

@@andrewbarrett1537 The early humans psychopaths hypothesis heats a snag if we take into consideration social structures of our closest cousins, primates and even some monkeys where cases of caring for the injured and general empathetic behaviour is present. Also early human tribal groups relied heavily on all members cooperation to survive, these type people can not work/contribute effectively within a group, thus tribes made up mainly of such individuals would find it difficult to survive and pass on their genetic code. It is the modern social structure that gives a greater facility for such individuals, where accumulation of power/wealth appears to give greater survival outcomes over all.

@@stanmarks3950 Not a snag, if you read Jane Goodall's studies of chimps. She describes muderous ones, and a lots of group violence, even genocide.

Given the rise of LGBTQ+ rights and protests against discrimination on racial and sexual identity, this seems almost inevitable. Minorities don't want to be treated differently than the rest. Psychopaths are a minority, pro-social ones are even smaller in number.

A psycopath would advocate because they struggle to understand the life and death consequences their actions lead to in social relationships. To them "who cares"

Lol witty point

yeah maybe but sorry, those are common skills and not really linked to data on psychopaths per se. Important to be specific.

disturbing i would say...

Statistics suggest otherwise

I'm sure that's the case for some tho

Narcissistic "asides" keep many of us engaged. We need more.

Many of the TED talks are highly rehearsed for months or longer before filming with an audience.

you shouldn't be so enthusiastic if he indeed is a psychopath.

Woman love psychos

you would more frightened if you are not confused

It’s a very good idea to inform yourself about how a psychopath or sociopath thinks and never be confused about how they really think. Also learn about narcissism. You can learn to avoid them and if you can’t entirely avoid them, learn how to properly deal with them, in my opinion.

This is fascinating but also confusing and frightening at the same time. *watching DoctorWho for the first time.

S T O N K S

it's literally the point of the presentation

this need 10000000 likes

I think it's because psychopathy can be epigenetically influenced. He had a general predisposition to it due to his lineage but his good upbringing changed the way those genes were expressed which can explain why he doesn't have full fledged and therefore clinical (behaviorally maladaptive) psychopathy. He probably still has that psychopathic brain (which isn't enough to confirm a psychopathy diagnosis) but he's able to utilize the positive aspects of it.

So you're saying he's manipulating the data to win fame and fortune from the media through a not-so-carefully crafted lie, and that somehow makes him NOT a psychopath? ;) Lol I know what you mean, but it is ironic

did michael jordan tell everyone on the court he was black Jesus? yes. yes he did. Fallon also just convinced a bunch of people that psychopaths aren't that bad.

Did you think this sounded smart?

Me, too. :-)

so what

only the smart ones though

Not really.

Always is never always........except for when it is. But don't let your prejudices rule :-)

@@strikergk4558 So be aware. Be aware that they use it as a tool to manipulate others, usually against everyone else’s best interests, except theirs of course.

If you're thinking about Trump...what brain?

I am not sure about that. Brain scanners show gray matter not brown matter.

@TJ Bowman I'm afraid you only think that because that's the case with you

@@dLzzzgaming 😂😂True

@@begerith Haha😂Got Him!No he means Trump probaly

It is treatable and I didn't go to any college

Not his fault though. I think it's good he except his condition, however, I'm curious about motivation as to why he *consciously changes his behavior from what he really wants to do.

yeah i dn' t think that's how things work: we're talking about someone raised right. @@noneofurbusiness5223

I like him too. He has no reason to be ashamed for something he didn’t choose.

well his narcissitic traits prolly make it physically impossible for him to be ashamed of himself lol

@@jessicaj2990 yeah

Having a lack of shame is a psychopathic characteristic.

Anthropomorphising can go too far. Mammals certainly do 'love and care', just not with your particular and particularly set of wooly ethics. Of course yer man feels no shame. Do you know what a psychopath even is? Duh...

Yeah it just makes you good at exploiting others because you couldn't care less if they starved and died.

This! And I am sick of how everybody here seem to essentially forget that the world, which is indeed made by psychopaths, is not a nice and fair place and we need a change.

A lack of empathy makes one better at some decisions and worse at others - that's why it's important to identify people experiencing this disorder and direct them towards using their unique psychological profile in the most prosocial way possible

Wow. That would be horrible.

The 'head of discipline' at my old school, my chemistry teacher, is currently serving nine and a half years for acts of sexual sadism against the boys in his charge. You may be half-joking with your suggestion, but most sociopathy has a far uglier face.

You would want children educated by a psychopath? You clearly have no understanding of what this man has just related. He is a very dark and dangerous individual who should not have been a parent. See what he says his friends and wife told him when he asked them. Psychopaths should never be close to children. The damage is lasting and always very serious.

@@MrDblStopthat is absolutely terrifying! Nobody should ever have to deal with monsters like your former teacher. What I meant to say is that not all psycho- and sociopaths turn into violent criminals. That scientist chose to research and to discover WHY he is the way he is and so far he has been very effective in his methods. DNA does not determine destiny.

@@reformerx667neither I nor anyone else in their right mind would ever want to see their children educated by psychopaths. The reality is that we all have already been taught by psychopaths unawares given the odds.

Wrong

Psychopaths do have emotions. It's specific types of emotions that are reduced. And it's the combination of these seperate reduced emotions that results in their behavioral patterns. Two parts of their brain have reduced neural activity. The first region of the brain, that has reduced activity, results in them having reduced empathy, guilt, etc. And, on top of that, they have reduced anxiety, fear, etc...due to that second region with reduced neural activity. It's the combination of no empathy and no fear that makes them psycopaths. The "no fear" part is why they're so confident and charming...but it can also result in impulsive behavior that can get them into trouble. But that same "no fear" part it why they make such great brain surgeons, politicians, etc. The no empathy part makes them great CEO's, journalists, etc. They understand empathy. They can emulate it cognitively. Because they spend their entire lives learning that skill in order to blend in. But they dont actually feel it. It's why they are so good at manipulating the emotions of normal people...and have no problem doing it.

@@tylerdurden3722 👏👏👏

Forget Jung ... psychopaths are evil, manipulative, destructive Liars ACTing however the situation requires for them to "win" by deceiving. That IS the evil brain so epidemic now. No need to split hairs, because it IS what it is.

He is a psychopath. A pet wolf doesn't cease being a wolf just because it doesn't eat the household cat. It's been TAUGHT since childhood to not be violent and view the humans and other pets as himself and his family. BUT if you starve the wolf or mistreat it then that WILD side could come back out. In reality he's a psychoCAP, as he's CAPABLE of being a full-blown psychopath of life circumstances were to become tragic.

John Wayne Gacy, not Dahmer.

Are you anything like your dad? U share his genes

@@reallifevegeta552 not at all, his parents also weren’t that way. And he didn’t had a traumatic life. I don’t know how this developed. In contact with him you always have to be on guard. You can’t show any weakness

Perfect description. We just dealt with a psychopath in court. It was painful to lose to their lies and manipulation. I hope you are okay. I wish you the best. By the way, I have to ask because it worries me that this psychopath we dealt with may cause her children and grandchildren to grown up like her. Any thoughts on why some people don't become a psychopath even if they are brought up by one?

@@gemum4219 thanks 🙏 I wish I could answer that question, I think it’s a rare genetic component why they become that way. I have asked this many times to professionals. It was always a fear of me, the only answer they could give you also have your mothers genes. I don’t see it in my daughter or any other relatives of me, i think because it’s a rare disorder. So i should not worry to much.

he's not doing it for them. He's doing it for his ego that he can do it. He stated this himself even. You are so easily fooled and manipulated.

MaDrung The effect is the same, they get what they want. 🤷‍♂️

that's the most sincere thing you can do? what about being yourself?

Ayn Rand seems to preach, in the books, what I do believe to be a psychopathic philosophy / ethos, so I think you're on to something.

Maybe if everyone in society was a psychopath, objectivism would be the most sensible philosophy. It would be interesting to see.

Yeah that dude laughed a little too hard for discretion sake. XD

I am actually laughing as well. I like this dude! Now I know why my dating history is a bit bumpy 😂😂

Women be like 😐😡🥰🥵🙂

What if they were to say something like "I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not going to pity you because I don't want you to remember the pain" through text? Would u personally consider that lack of empathy as well?

@@ParmyJan sounds borderline.... to me

According to those guidelines, # Hare's scale, those who score very high are likely antisocial , not psychopaths. :)

It’s religion that is behind it often but in the case of the young Afghan girl, her mother is also an awful person on top of the damaging and immoral teachings of her religion ( which says rubbish like, women are worth less than men, etc.)

@@paddlefar9175 the thing is that violence is an adaptation to living and being born into a war zone

@@ST-yc7uj Yes, I can see how that would be true.

Моя школьная подруга была психопаткой....опасный был тип, в конце концов мне казалось единственным выходом будет суицид

This also explains all the R vs K dynamic and ability for certain Females to poach High Value Males Genes vs other Females for an in group Tribe Benefit down the Road. Equivalent to dynamic of Neanderthals going extinct due to Cro-Magnons interbred in Europe or Asia. Where poaching Neanderthal Quality Genes lead to extinction due to assimilation into the modern human genome (bred into extinction), great climatic change, disease, or a combination of these factors. Where some Males and Females will not mate inside the Tribe due to Hormones and Genetic Diversification which could lead to recessive Genes. Next 10-20 Years should be interesting seeing what happens to the West due to Feminism as Most Males are going MGTOW and Venturing to Asia / South America / Eastern Europe for Female Surrogates vs getting Married due to extra Taxes / Risk breeding the United States.

André Armenni Sometimes I can be pro-social, sometimes anti-social, its whatever and whenever I feel like. For me though its just a lack of empathy and emotions. Have you ever noticed a difficulty making a choice when emotions should be involved and not logical emotion ? Like I have more trouble deciding what to get from a mcdonalds menu than lying on whim

+André Armenni Are you good at spotting other psychopaths?

+John Johnson could be aspergers with you more than psychopathy they are quite similar

No I don't act like a dumbass in public, as the aspergers dumbfucks do

woah jeez calm down I'm only pointing out psychopathy and aspergers can be quite similar and to just out and say you have psychopathy isn't going to cut it unless you actually get a brain scan

I was in the 30s when I did mine. I don't care. lol

Mine has since elevated four points to exactly 30/40 - after the final revelation. Being that, I had previously been experiencing a ‘significant loss of insight,’ which Cleckley’s ‘mischievous’ psychopathic manifestation included in his original insight. Which then later, had been removed by Hare - which whether accurate, inaccurate - or depending on Hare’s ‘specific loss of insight’, regarding his own financial motives, in creating his revised PCL checklist - unless of course he was acting with ‘a grandiose sense of self worth,’ ‘being cunning and manipulative,’ and experiencing ‘shallow effect,’ is neither here nor there. 😅

@@ebogar42 😅

Your aren’t considered to have psychopathy unless you score 30 or over

Do onions count?