practice at lying, cheating and stealing - this requires lot of self-control, which is considered a virtue.
They are ruthless because to them other people are objects - this is an emotion management, another virtue.
They are not focused on any long term goal. Their focus is very much on the now - and this is called spontaneity, a top of Maslow hierarchy.
So, you call it wrong?)
The point is, there are never been any study of so-called extreme cases. Get your test subjects from slums - you will get different psychology. It does't matter what experts think they will find. They will find what they don't expect.
The common-sense psychology text-book says that family doesn't matter. Well, if it is an average mediocre family, it doesn't, indeed. Children were shaped by their social network - by the street.
Now consider being raised in a family where you father died in an accident and mother became mentally ill, without any treatment, or even diagnosis. What common-sense psychology will say? "We probably would see some systematic differences"?
This is yet another bell-curve. Common-sense psychology studying mostly those 75%. Yeah psychopath is different.
It doesn't matter if it's an extreme end of a spectrum of human behaviors. The words are still just as true, and the actions just as alien to normal people. Just like all other personality disorders.
practice at lying, cheating and stealing - this requires lot of self-control, which is considered a virtue.
They are ruthless because to them other people are objects - this is an emotion management, another virtue.
They are not focused on any long term goal. Their focus is very much on the now - and this is called spontaneity, a top of Maslow hierarchy.
So, you call it wrong?)
The point is, there are never been any study of so-called extreme cases. Get your test subjects from slums - you will get different psychology. It does't matter what experts think they will find. They will find what they don't expect.
The common-sense psychology text-book says that family doesn't matter. Well, if it is an average mediocre family, it doesn't, indeed. Children were shaped by their social network - by the street.
Now consider being raised in a family where you father died in an accident and mother became mentally ill, without any treatment, or even diagnosis. What common-sense psychology will say? "We probably would see some systematic differences"?
This is yet another bell-curve. Common-sense psychology studying mostly those 75%. Yeah psychopath is different.