{"id":65047,"date":"2021-07-08T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65047"},"modified":"2021-07-07T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:18:06","slug":"qotd-psychopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/07\/08\/qotd-psychopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Psychopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 35px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Came across this today. Psychopath &#8220;diagnostic criteria&#8221;. These are all direct quotes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Psychopaths show a disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others.<\/li>\n<li>They fail to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours.<\/li>\n<li>They are always deceitful &#8230; They are nasty, aggressive con artists.<\/li>\n<li>They are massively impulsive and fail to plan ahead.<\/li>\n<li>They show irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights and assaults.<\/li>\n<li>They manifest a reckless disregard for the physical and psychological safety of others.<\/li>\n<li>They are consistently irresponsible. Repeated failure to sustain consistent work behaviour &#8230; are their hallmark.<\/li>\n<li>They show lack of remorse. They are indifferent to, or rationalize, having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another &#8230; It can seem that labelling them as anti-social is a serious understatement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Furnham, Adrian. <em>50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know<\/em>. London: Quercus Publishing, p. 25. The heading of the chapter is &#8220;Seem Sane&#8221;. This is the statement at the start of the discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Psychopaths are without conscience and incapable of empathy, guilt or loyalty to anyone but themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, I just thought I would mention it.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kates, <a href=\"https:\/\/catallaxyfiles.com\/2021\/04\/07\/psychopath-diagnostic-criteria\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Psychopath &#8216;diagnostic criteria'&#8221;, <em>Catallaxy Files<\/em><\/a>, 2021-04-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this today. Psychopath &#8220;diagnostic criteria&#8221;. These are all direct quotes. Psychopaths show a disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others. They fail to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours. They are always deceitful &#8230; They are nasty, aggressive con artists. They are massively impulsive and fail to plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[906,139],"class_list":["post-65047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gV9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66931,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65047\/revisions\/66931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}